was sexual in nature. From there, he undertook the monumental task of analyzing his own unconscious mind. He developed a theory on biological and sexual drives in relation to the suppression of emotion. One may find some examples of this in his structure of personality. This consists of the infant stage (id), the mediation stage (ego), and the adult stage (superego).
             The id is a stage in life where an infant is nothing more than a biological function of pleasure seeking. Normal survival functions, such as eating, are thought of as a way for the child to find pleasure and avoid pain. The ego is the balancing process between the world around us and our instinct to gratify our pleasures. In this part of the personality structure, we learn self- control and patience instead of allowing our primordial instincts to run rampant. The superego is where the child incorporates values from the parents and society. This is the personality structure that develops our moral and ethical standards.
             Interwoven with these stages, are Freud's psychosexual stages of development. He explains the various stages of sexual development ranging from infancy to adolescence. This writer found it interesting that something as simple as chewing food or the mother not feeding the child regularly can result in oral aggressive behavior and emotional imbalance later on in life (Sharf, 2004, p. 34). Equally profound, is the concept of parents not allowing their children to play with their feces, may result in
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