... a large part in modifying the demands of the ID to be more realistic in a true to life situation. 3) The Superego. This develops at around the age of 5 and is the part of the mind that embodies an individuals sense of what is right and wrong. The Superego equates to what is more commonly known as a person's conscious. Freud also believed that there were three levels of consciousness: the conscious, the preconscious and the unconscious. The conscious is the thoughts that you are currently focusing upon. The preconscious mind consists of information that can easily be retrieved into consciousness. The unconscious mind is the information that is very hard, nearly impossible, to bring into the conscious mind. Freud was the first to introduce the concept of the 'unconscious mind' and because of this it has helped people to evaluate rational and irrational concepts of the human personality. ...

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