The ego is influenced by the “reality principle”.
The only part in our mind which is in contact with reality is the ego (Feist & Feist, 2009). Freud has proposed this as the primary principle process (Schultz & Schultz, 2009). Hence, the only way for the hungry infant to bring satisfaction is through reflex action. For example, a newborn baby one who cries when the need is not reached but does not have the knowledge to satisfy the pleasure. This is because id only functions to seek and maximize it’s pleasure and avoid pain, we say that id serves the pleasure principle (Schultz & Schultz, 2009). It ignores about other’s desire or the reality and place it’s satisfaction at the first place (Ciccarelli & White, 2012). The ids are usually demanding, immoral, illogical, irrational and selfish. The id or it is the primary personality found in an infant. This case had brought Freud to believe that our mind is divided into three parts- unconscious, conscious and preconscious minds which more commonly known as the id, ego and superego (Ciccarelli & White, 2012). After some time, she covers the internal conflict by coughing (Stevenson, 1996). At that moment, she felt guilt and sadness for leaving her father’s bedside. There was once where her neighbour played a wonderful music, she was so excited and she started dancing soon she had an urge to be at her neighbour’s house and thus leaving her father’s bedside. After doing some hypnosis, Freud noticed that these disturbances are actually parts of her memories while she was nursing her dying father. She showed some physiological and psychological disturbance like nervous cough, rigid paralysis, eye movement disturbed, power of speech reduces and others (Stevenson, 1996). Anna O is a young girl in her early twenties she was a patient of Dr.Breuer. Bertha Pappenhein alias Anna O case is one of the classic case study by Freud (Stevenson, 1996).
Anxiety and unhappiness is the main symptoms for this situation. Sigmund Freud believed that our mind always have conflicts with itself.
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