It is perceived as a safe space where your parents will accept you and love you if you’re acting according to their rules and norms. Inner voice, just like superego, develops in early childhood and tries to keep you in the Good Girl or Good Boy square. The Freudian perspective and definition of superego gives us an insight into the nature of inner critic, the critical voice that whispers doubts and fears.
Today, the idea of unconscious mind is widely accepted and scientifically proven. Yet, it was Freud who developed idea of irrational forces outside of conscious mind that determine human thoughts and experience. Freud’s theories and techniques have been widely criticised, especially for very little empirical evidence to back the theories up. It has been almost 80 years since the death of Sigmund Freud, neurologist and the founder of Psychoanalysis. If we are behaving according to superego’s image of ideal-self, then the superego can also reward us by making us feel proud. If the ego surrenders under demands of id, the superego then punishes the ego with the feelings of guilt.
The superego has a superpower to cause feelings of guilt or pride. According to Freud, superego consists at first of integrated parental morals about what is right and wrong and later takes on the influence of other significant people like teachers, educators. The ego is under constant watch of superego. The ego tries to meet the desires of id in such a way that it is acceptable for external real world. As Freud put it, the ego “attempts to mediate between the id and reality”. When we grow older, we still try to satisfy the needs while act accordingly to social norms and circumstances- with the help of ego. Baby’s are completely “id-driven” in order to survive. It is present from birth and responds directly to needs in order to receive immediate gratification. Id works to satisfy the basic needs, desires and urges. These are active agents that form so called psychic apparatus (human personality). According to Freud, a complex human behaviour is the reflection of three distinct yet interacting systems, id, ego and superego.
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