The id “knows no value judgments: neither good nor evil, nor morality (Freud, The dissection of the psychic personality, 2004, p. 84).” This means that the id is the part of the personality that is not organized into processes and contains only the instincts for the person's biological needs to live. Since the id has no moral sense, does not know good and evil, its main goal is to provide the person with everything he needs by any means possible to thrive. The way to remember that the id has no value judgments is to think of it as a child. A baby drinks and cries until it receives food, drink, or human touch. The child is so unruly that he needs someone to control him and that would be the Ego. The ego functions according to the reality principle, that is, it keeps the id under control through the organization of personality processes. The Ego is the mediator between the Id and the Superego which we will talk about later. Since the ego is considered a mediator, it might be remembered as the brains of the operation. It keeps the Id under control by educating it and showing that if a need must be satisfied there is a specific way to obtain it. Then there is the Superego, which Freud considered "the origin of conscience", in the sense that the specific function of the Superego is to act as the person's conscience between good and evil (Freud, The dissection of the psychic personality, 2004 , p. 74). The superego balances the id
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