Id, ego, and super-ego
The Id, Ego, and Super-Ego are the divisions of the psyche according to psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud’s “structural theory.” These terms offered a more compelling description of the dynamic relations between the conscious and the unconscious. The “id” (fully unconscious) contains the drives and those things repressed by consciousness; the “ego” (mostly conscious) deals with external reality; and the “super ego” (partly conscious) is the conscience or the internal moral judge .