... to describe the human personality as being structured into three parts, the Id, Ego and Superego. He explained that an individual's feelings, thoughts, and behaviours are the result of the interaction of the id, the superego, and the ego. This creates conflict which in turn creates anxiety, which leads to Defence Mechanisms. The Id contains our primitive drives and works largely on the pleasure principle, where its two main goals are seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. It has no real perception of reality and seeks to satisfy its needs through what Freud called the primary processes that dominate the existence of infants. For example hunger and self-protection, which demands immediate satisfaction. The energy for the Id's actions comes from the libido. The id has 2 major instincts. The 1st being Eros, the life instinct that motivates people to focus on pleasure-seeking activities (e.g., sexual urges). The 2nd is called Thanatos, the ...

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