Inner Conflicts:

>Is it possible that the conflicts Freud thought he identified among the id, ego, and superego are in part the consequences of a "reality check" designed into humans (Dierdre Block, pers. comm.)? Such a reality check could involve grave mental-emotional hurdles if the rules accepted or forced upon us, especially at early ages, turn out not to be serving our interests in the real world in which we have later come to live.<

Richard D. Alexander