Freud's ego psychology. Feel it...and enjoy it...not too little, not too much



Even though we do not know much about Freud´s ego psychology, we feel it as being important in our lifes and he considered it as being "a formidable counterweight to id, responsible for regulating id impulses, as well as integrating an individual's functioning into a coherent whole." The modifications made by Freud in Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety formed the basis of a psychoanalytic psychology interested in the nature and functions of the ego. This marked the transition of psychoanalysis from being primarily an id psychology, focused on the vicissitudes of the libidinal and aggressive drives as the determinants of both normal and psychopathological functioning, to a period in which the ego was accorded equal importance and was regarded as the prime shaper and modulator of behavior.