> The way I read your comment, the SuperEgo consists out of social norms that only exist because society exist.
Not just like that. It is about ideas of Good and Evil absorbed in a childhood. It is mostly is a social things, but not quite. Though from other hand human is defined though a society, Homo Sapience cannot become a human without growing in a group of other humans. All the essential things, like a language are acquired through education. So in a broad sense yes, SuperEgo is a product of a society.
> But there are things that we know are good for us, that are pleasant to us, but we still don't do them. Are they part of the SuperEgo?
I do not know. Probably professional psychoanalytics are do not know either, and if asked would debate between themselves for days.
Freud said that Id is about primitive drives of a behavior, like food, water, sex. I think that any acquired conditional reflexes seeking instant gratification (like obsessive refreshing of a twitter for new tweets to consume) are also belong to Id. While any "high level" idea of what is good for you belongs to SuperEgo.
When thing is good for us and is pleasant to us, then it technically belongs to both, as to Id, so to SuperEgo. How psychoanalisys handle this I do not know. If it was up to me, I'd say that my knowledge that something is good for me is a part of SuperEgo, while an expectation of a pleasure is a part of Id, so they are different drives working from different parts of psyche. Why I choose not to do it is a tricky part, because SuperEgo and Id agree on this, but it doesn't happen. The author proposes an explanation of Inner Child resisting discipline, and I think that any explanation would need to bring something in addition to "good for me" and "pleasure to do". Something that triggers a conflict in Ego.
Not just like that. It is about ideas of Good and Evil absorbed in a childhood. It is mostly is a social things, but not quite. Though from other hand human is defined though a society, Homo Sapience cannot become a human without growing in a group of other humans. All the essential things, like a language are acquired through education. So in a broad sense yes, SuperEgo is a product of a society.
> But there are things that we know are good for us, that are pleasant to us, but we still don't do them. Are they part of the SuperEgo?
I do not know. Probably professional psychoanalytics are do not know either, and if asked would debate between themselves for days.
Freud said that Id is about primitive drives of a behavior, like food, water, sex. I think that any acquired conditional reflexes seeking instant gratification (like obsessive refreshing of a twitter for new tweets to consume) are also belong to Id. While any "high level" idea of what is good for you belongs to SuperEgo.
When thing is good for us and is pleasant to us, then it technically belongs to both, as to Id, so to SuperEgo. How psychoanalisys handle this I do not know. If it was up to me, I'd say that my knowledge that something is good for me is a part of SuperEgo, while an expectation of a pleasure is a part of Id, so they are different drives working from different parts of psyche. Why I choose not to do it is a tricky part, because SuperEgo and Id agree on this, but it doesn't happen. The author proposes an explanation of Inner Child resisting discipline, and I think that any explanation would need to bring something in addition to "good for me" and "pleasure to do". Something that triggers a conflict in Ego.