Consciousness Is a Real Challenge for Human Beings

I want to understand why we are the way we are, looking at life in its continual complexity. I'm a psychoanalytic thinker, and what that means is that i believe that people are collections of sub personalities - they're not machines. They're like low resolution representations of you when you get angry. And as freud pointed out with the id we have to figure out how to take all those underlying animalistic motivations and emotions and civilize them so that we can all live together without tearing each other to shreds.