Tag: "Id"

The Ego: How It Relates to Your Happiness

Sigmund Freud did a great job explaining what the ego is but he also failed to mention many important details about the ego. The ego is a function in the mind that gives us awareness of what we are experiencing in a linear fashion. It acts like a tape recorder and is the observer of our thoughts and emotions. People who have an imbalanced ego will have a hard time finding happiness because they do not really know what they want. An imbalanced ego can become overstimulated which allows it to dominant over our thoughts and emotions.