... to his theory of personality, our personality is a product of a constant battle between Id, pleasure principle, and Superego, moral principle, which produces Ego, reality principle, to balance Id and Superego. Id, primitive principle present at birth, is life instincts, which according to Freud are Eros and Thanatos. At first, an infant would behave according to his or her Id than later learns the rule of society and family that blocks fulfillment of his or her instinct drives. Thus as one mature, one would learn to balance Id and Superego, and create a personality based on ego which mediate between the Id, Superego, and environment. According to Freud, Ego would use defense mechanisms to make people go on with daily life such as regression. Regression, one of the defense mechanism, suggest that our present behavior is shaped by our past experiences as people would return to the behaviors that ...

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