s not strong enough to repress the Id, and therefore results in actions that are often attributed to a “lapse in judgment”.The Ego (backed by the Super-Ego, as will be discussed later) invariably is the key component of the mind responsible for the controlling of the animal impulses contained within the Id. There are thus only two scenarios possible which serve the capacity of withholding human aggressive urges: (1) the Ego remains powerful enough throughout one’s lifetime so as to render him oblivious to his latent violent and aggressive tendencies, contained within the Id, with a minimum of neuroses incurred; or (2) one has brought the disturbingly incongruent contents of his Id into the consciousness of the Ego, through psychoanalysis, and has thus learned to deal with them in a way that will not render him wholly neurotic, i.e. through sublimation. The third possible scenario is least desirable, but still may serve more often than not to ebb the flow of aggressive tendencies: To have not acknowledged the contents of one’s Id through psychoanalysis or otherwise and to live a lifetime crippled by fits of neurological hysteria. The neuroses (also: hysteria) and sublimation thus serve as the primary defense mechanisms which prevent the predominance of the animalistic rage embodied in the Id. In any scenario in which the above three conditions do not exist, a person will manifest aggressively violent tendencies in even the most inopportune of situations.Finally, the Super-Ego plays an important role in the hierarchy of structures which serve to either prevent or permit the manifestation of aggression. The Super-Ego serves the role of the human conscience, and thereby comprises all of our moralistic and value judgments as human beings. Aggression, as viewed by Western society, is looked upon as favorable, or moralistic, in the sense of “assertiveness”, and frowned upon as amoral in the sense of violent ...
