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Freud's view of conscience
An aspect of the super-ego

Freud's 3 aspects of the mind
- Id
- Ego
- Super-ego

Id
- Unconscious, instinctive part of our personality
- Consists of our basic needs & desires

Ego
- Rational faculty
- Realises we have to take into account the needs of others & acts as a break on the id

Super-Ego
- Developed in early childhood
- Internalised voice of parental authority
- Continues role of commanding / threatening carried out by parents & other authority figures in society

Role of super-ego in conscience
- Conscience = Negative aspect of super-ego
- Expresses itself consciously & unconsciously as guilt & shame

Challenge to Freud's view
- Too reductive
- Gives a limited & extremely narrow role to conscience
