of anything else is impossible. This is the wish or drive breaking into consciousness. At this point, the organism will follow the id and instinctively mobilize and perform the desired action to satisfy such need, no matter the consequences.
             Fortunately for the organism, there is that small portion of the mind or the conscious that is hooked up to the world through the senses. Around this little bit of consciousness, during the first year of a child's life, some of the "it" becomes "I," in Freudian terms, some of the id becomes ego. The ego relates the organism to reality by means of its consciousness, and it searches for appropriate objects to satisfy the wishes that id creates to represent the organism¡¯s needs. This problem-solving activity is called the secondary process.
             The ego, unlike the id, functions according to the reality principle, which says ¡°take care of a need as soon as an appropriate object is found.¡± It represents reality and, to a considerable extent, reason. The ego is guided in its activity by consideration of the tensions produced by stimuli, whether these tensions are present in it or introduced into it. The raising of these tensions is in general felt as unpleasure and their lowering as pleasure. The ego strives after pleasure and seeks to avoid unpleasure. An increase in unpleasure that is expected and foreseen is met by a signal of anxiety. The occurring of such an increase, whether it threatens from without or within, is known as a danger. In other words, the reality principle dictates the ego to carry into effect the postponement of satisfaction and the abandonment of a number of possibilities of gaining satisfaction momentarily but might lead to unpleasure in the future.
             As mentioned before, there are many stimuli in the outside world that interacts with the consciousness or ego. When these stimuli outside becomes overwhelming, the ego must defend itself. The ego does so by unconsciousl...