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The structure of the personality in psychoanalytic theory is threefold. Freud divided it into the id, the ego and the superego. Only the ego is visible, or on the surface one may say, while the id and the superego remain 'hidden', below the surface of what we show of our personalities to others, but each has its own effects on the personality nonetheless. This essay seeks to explore these three layers of personality and how …

…has taken punishment, right, and wrong into himself. The superego uses guilt and self-reproach as its primary means of enforcement for these rules. But if a person has done something which is acceptable, he experiences pride and self-satisfaction." I have discussed the structural relationship within the mental personality, and although very complex, Freud's work on the ego, superego and id has continued to be greatly studied, respected and used to expend our fields of knowledge.