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These are ways that the ego develops to help deal with the id and the superego.
en.wikipedia.org Instead of instinctively acting like the id, the superego works to act in socially acceptable ways.
en.wikipedia.org The ego is the reality conscious aspect of the mind that balances the ids animalistic tendencies and the morality of the superego.
en.wikipedia.org Techniques such as dream interpretation, free association, transference and analysis of the id, ego and superego were developed.
en.wikipedia.org The superego, therefore, is the internalized social norms that keeps us on a straight and narrow path.
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