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AP Psychology 1.1 Personality. According to Freud, these three parts of personality are constantly in conflict.

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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by Freudian ships or

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er slips, Freudian slips.. okay according to Freud these three parts of personality [Freud stood on a boat]

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are constantly in conflict and here are our potential answers....

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Well before we get into the question and potential answers let's [Brains in a boxing ring]

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brush up on the Freudian theories on personality to figure out which of these

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three parts of the mind just can't manage to get along well Sigmund Freud

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was not only famous for having awesome couches but also for exploring the human [Freud in a store filled with couches]

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mind and making his own model of it now according to Freud the Id lives in the

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unconscious part of the mind, kind of like a Jimmy down the street who still

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lives in his mom's basement. The Id is primitive and acts entirely on instinct [Jimmy down the street in his Mom's basement]

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which means it doesn't always think before it acts which is sort of similar

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to you know like when we watch friends on Netflix and keep mindlessly hitting [Boy watching Friends on netflix]

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the next episode button again and again and again.. Anyway the Id is made up of

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instincts and drive, one instinct being the life instinct called Eros and its

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drive to create known as libido but like Thelma had Louise arrows had its flip

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side too. The death instinct aka Thanatos moving on that brings us to the [car driving off the end of a cliff]

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super-ego or a person's conscience or if you were a little wooden boy then it

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would be that cricket that's always nagging you about your moral judgment we [Boy with a wooden body and a cricket appears]

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could say that the super-ego or conscience operates in the conscious

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part of the mind in other words the super-ego is that little voice in your

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head that tells you it's not socially acceptable to post a dozen selfies on [Girl taking lots of selfies]

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Facebook every day no matter how good you are at it this puts the Id and

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super-ego in a constant push-pull kind of like a game of tug-of-war in the mind [The Id and super-ego brains having a tug of war]

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and guess who gets the hard task of refereeing the ego..Now that we've had

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our quick review of Freud's parts of mind, let's go over the potential answers

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here and see which ones don't work. Well starting with A we know that libido is

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more of a byproduct of Eros and since the two actually work together we can get [Libido falls from Eros and shake hands]

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rid of this option next up B while Eros and Thanatos may be in constant

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competition with each other like Coke and Pepsi they're not necessarily in

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conflict with the the ego. In fact, the ego is more like sprite kind

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of in its own category so uh we can eliminate B. Well how about C while [A rainbow colored letter C]

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ego and superego may continually be fighting libido isn't let's get rid of C

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and move on to D, well with D we know that libido is a part of Eros and Eros

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is a part of Id which reminds us of those little Russian dolls that fit into [Russian doll brains fall into the Id brain]

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one another there are part of each other not working against each other so mark off

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D as well and that just leaves us with E; since ego is always struggling between

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the Id and super-ego the three are constantly in conflict which makes this [Id, ego and super-ego in a three way tug of war]

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one the answer like our family at Thanksgiving these three will probably

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never get along but it looks like they're stuck with each other, sorry guys [Id, super-ego and ego brains having thanksgiving dinner]

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