The ego is what mediates conflicts between the id and the super ego. And so oftentimes in our life is a conflict between the shods and the wants. So this is where, like, the defense mechanisms come in play. What tends to happen is that we'll have some kind of id feeling, and then a defence will activate. e'll take that id feeling movement into the subconscious, and it'll kind of live over hered. These negative feelings will kind of boil to the surface and create passive aggressive behaviors.