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... SUPEREGO pressures the EGO to keep the ID in line with moral ideology. It sets ideals and consists of the conscience, which makes us feel things such as pride and guilt. To enable the EGO to deal with the demands of the ID and SUPEREGO, it uses a number of defence mechanisms. Some of these are Regression - where we 'go back' to an earlier stage or situation that gives comfort. Denial - where we refuse to accept the 'truth'. Repression - where we push unpleasant ideas into the unconscious and Reaction Formation - where an individual acts in a way contrary to unacceptable feelings they are experiencing. Others include Sublimation, Displacement and Compensation. Thirdly, Freud maintained a theory of psychosexual stages of development, which we all pass through in childhood. The first stage is the Oral Stage at 0-2 years where the focus of pleasure is the mouth. Pleasure ...