Superego

 What it is: This is the part of the personality that contains all our “shoulds”. It contains our ideal self and our conscience. superego takes up the most space and is equally in the conscious and the unconscious areas of our psyche. This shows how expectations we have from ourselves and expectations that others have from us are deep-seated and therefore, when we act against these expectations, for example even when we oppose our parents over something that is valid and important, we are punished by the superego in the form of feeling guilt and shame.

Unlike the id which is passed down to us from our forefathers and is present in us even as babies, the superego is acquired through our experiences. Children developed superego by the ages of 3-5 years.  As this superego is not a need, but an internal representation of external values, interaction with other humans and society become important to develop it.

What it wants: It wants individuals to be good boys or good girls in the eyes of society, follow the moral values. Whatever image that we create of the perfect version of ourselves also comes into play here.

When the superego does not get its way, we experience emotions of shame and guilt what principle does it function on: The superego functions on the principle of Morality.

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