ABSTRACT
The ego’s second conflict is in relation to the superego, which confronts the ego for falling in too much with the id’s wishes. The poignant irony is that the child has reacted to wishes for one parent, by internalizing the other parent’s prohibitions – and these prohibitions now become self-imposed. And because the superego now offers a new outlet for the child’s angry feelings, pathologies of self-rage can arise. All the fury that would have been directed onto the outside world is now directed onto the self.
