The ego, as i understand just from this text, is the thing that is that divides you from the external world. It's the boundary that gets put between you and everything else. Frod actually believed that one of the things that happens in this stage is that young boys realize that they can never defeat their father,. They just give in, and they incorporate their father into their own self. So that's the super ego.

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