... to destroy is Thanatos. The superego consists of societal and parental values and morals that have been instilled in the person. It is largely unconscious and restrains the impulses of the id. The ego consists of a conscious faculty for perceiving and dealing intelligently with reality; it acts as mediator between the id and the superego. Freud theorized that from birth through adolescence, the individual develops through five distinct stages, called psychosexual stages. These include the oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital stages. One of the major criticisms of Freud's personality theory centres on his perception of women as inferior. Other criticisms of Freud's theory are as follows: * Difficult to test, but the evidence that has been gathered is not favourable * The crucial events (e.g., how the libido is used) are unobservable, and there are no good means to measure them * There is an awfully long time between ...

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