In Freud's view the Ego stands in between the Id and the Superego to balance our primitive needs and our moral beliefs and taboos. He stated that the Ego consists of our conscious sense of self and world, a highly structured set of unconscious defenses that are central in defining both individual differences in character or personality, the symptoms and inhibitions that define the neuroses, and ultimately serving as the executive branch of the mind which leads to action.
“When I began writing long ago, I believed — I knew — that the means and manner evolved at that time to argue about pop culture had the potential to be expanded to crack open other subjects, old or new: that unleashed on the events, acts, energies, postures, evasions and idiocies of any human activity, they would be nothing if not revelatory and galvanising...”
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