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From: kmgopinathan@violet.waterloo.edu (Krishna Gopinathan)
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: superego/ego/id : some general questions
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Date: 1 Apr 88 19:41:31 GMT
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I've heard the terms superego, ego, and id mentioned a lot but I
haven't really seen a clear definition of them.  Can anyone out there
in netland explain them?

In Management textbooks discussing Transactional Analysis, they mention
three states of the human psyche called Parent, Adult, and Child.  Is
there any parallel between these and superego, ego, and id?  And lastly
do the stages of development, oral/anal/genital, have any correlation
with these concepts?  If so, how?

I apologize if these are trivial questions.


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Krishna Gopinathan                                 kmgopina@water.bitnet
Dept. of Computer Science               kmgopinathan@violet.waterloo.edu
University of Waterloo             kmgopinathan@violet.waterloo.netnorth
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