> **🌱 Planted:** Tue 24 December 2024 --- [[Sigmund Freud]]’s model of the psyche is one of the most influential concepts in psychoanalysis. In his 1923 work "The Ego and the Id", Freud proposed the human mind is structured into three distinct elements: the [[The Id is the source of instinctual desire|Id]], the [[The Ego serves three masters—the id, reality and the superego|Ego]], and the [[The superego represents the moral expectations of parents, culture and society|Superego]]. Freud’s model was developed as part of his broader inquiry into unconscious processes and the inner conflicts that shape human behaviour. Through his earlier theories about the conscious and unconscious mind, he came up with this framework which explains how desires, reality and morality all interact within the human Psyche. --- **➡️ Next:** - [[The Id is the source of instinctual desire]] - [[The Ego serves three masters—the id, reality and the superego]] - [[The superego represents the moral expectations of parents, culture and society]]