We have three people inside us. We are not one. Who are those three people?

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We think we are one...one human being. But actually it is not so!...we have three people inside us...when i say 'i am rams!'...or funnyrams...i am not one person...i am a combination of three people. Three organisms.  It is not only for me. It is for all human beings. Who are they?...what are their characteristics?...what do they do inside us?...let us see about them here...ok...

What is personality structure?

I generally refer to this saying ‘every human being has three organisms inside. They are alert and functioning all the time inside us. When I say ‘I am rams’, I refer to the ‘combination of all these three organisms’.

Freud describes it as ‘three partite structure of the human personality’.

The names of the three organisms inside us are named as follows:-

(a)     Id (pronounced as ‘yid’)

(b)    The Ego

(c)      The Super ego

Id is the most important organism, as most of our behaviours are due to this. The most disturbing, basic, fundamental, essential and dangerous organism. It is there from birth to death. There is no human being without this organism. If this is not there, we cannot be alive. It is responsible for all the scandals, rapes, thefts, scams and all the bad things and negativities of life that we read in the newspapers or watch in TV channels!!!

Does a new born infant has anything called its personality?...yes…it has!

At the time of birth, the personality of the infant remains to be an embodiment of id.

Therefore, id is the original system of personality. In the course of development or growth of the infant, it is differentiated into the ego and the super ego.

The id is occupied by a mass of ‘blind instincts’…the basic fundamental instincts of life!...thirst, hunger, to breath, sexual or reproductive urge, identifying dangers and protecting from them etc.

There is no logical organization of these instincts and impulses in the id. Therefore, instincts that contradict one another may simultaneously be present in the id. No sense of time prevails in the id…e.g we feel hungry or sexual needs any time.

Impulses already present in the id and also the new impulses (e.g tabooed sexual desires) repressed and sent to be hidden in the unconscious can remain unaltered for indefinite period in the id. That is how repressed traumatic experiences of childhood tend to persist and persevere in the adulthood and later.

Id is essentially ‘amoral’ in its character. It has no sense of values and cannot discriminate the good from the evil. It adheres to only ‘pleasure’ principle. It’s only concern is to release tension instantly and relegate the organism to a comfort zone involving constant and low level or energy.

Id is not oriented to reality. Id always tries to obtain pleasure and avoid pain.

In psychoanalysis we use a term called ‘primary process’. It refers to id’s approach towards wish fulfillment by avoiding pain and gain pleasure. It is an illusory process. It constitutes an hallucinatory form of experience in which ‘desired object’ is present in the form of memory image of the desired one. Nocturnal dreams represent fulfillment or attempted fulfillment of a wish.

The id processes remain entirely unconscious. The processes are inferred by analyzing the manifestation of the processes in the dreams, free associations, and neurotic and psychotic formation.  These phenomena are called ‘instinct derivatives’.

Several primitive instincts are associated with the id. However, sexual and aggressive instincts receive special premium.

This id has a big problem!!...its problem is by itself it is not capable of reducing the tension. For e.g a hunger experience by a person cannot be satiated by images of food and the tension cannot be relieved by such form of wish fulfillment. If id is not safeguarded and is left to its own strategies it might annihilate itself.

let us see about the remaining two people and how they are related to this id etc in the next post...ok!

bye guys and gals...keep rocking!

rams