Freud saw the superego as a guardian that pressured the ego to resist the id’s impulses in order to fit social norms. Specifically, Freud argued the superego developed in childhood as a part of the ...

Because Sigmund Freud invented psychoanalysis, ... His “messianic impulses” struck a response in followers who had no strong religious, political and philosophic convictions, ...

After those two monumental works, the next wave of Freud biographies seemed to respond to a strong reciprocal impulse; after all, he had written the most influential biography of us—of man, a ...

After Freud, a number of ... The central functions of the ego were traditionally seen as reality-testing, impulse-control, judgment, affect tolerance, defence, and synthetic functioning.

Titled Freud and Psychoanalysis: Six Introductory Lectures, Forrester’s book, ... Despite the “democratic impulse” Forrester plausibly places at the heart of psychoanalysis, ...