What Freud Meant by the Ego, the Id and the Superego

The three parts of every mind

Image by Mote Oo Education from Pixabay (edited)

According to the father of psychology Sigmund Freud, there are three parts of the human psyche: the ego, the id and the superego. These are originally Latin terms meaning ‘I’, ‘it’ and ‘upper-I’.

The iceberg is a common illustration of this triple structure of the mind. The part of the iceberg above…