I’ll give you a simple example to understand the superego and the ego, how it develops in a little child. A child is nursed by the mother and he’s in complete joy, one with the mother, enjoying fully. Suddenly the mother removes the child from one side to another side, he doesn’t like it. The child doesn’t like it and he puts down his foot there. That is the development of ego. He asserts himself. Ego develops gradually on the left side in the brain but comes forward.
When the child is then corrected by mother, she says, “Don’t do, don’t do like this”, he is conditioned. By that, he accepts it, and the superego as a reaction develops on the right-hand side of the brain from this side and covers it gradually. At the age of about twelve years because language is another way by which they are strengthened. And here, when they meet completely, a man is made into an egg, an articulation takes place, everyone develops a separate personality. He is Mr So-and-So, he is Mr So-and-So, he is Mr So-and-So and the misidentification starts. There are many misidentifications we suffer from; we call them ‘mythia’. We know they are myth, our name. I’ve known people, somebody’s name was Dharamdhar and he was the greatest adharmi ever born.
There are so many misidentifications. We are attached to our name. If somebody says that, “You Mr So-and-So, you are a very bad man”, one feels very hurt and bad you see, your anger comes up, “What do you say? This was ‘my’ name.” We are attached to so many misidentifications all our lives. The myths starts collecting and we become covered with so much of that misidentification. Our ego and superego completely overlap all our wisdom.
So the ego is created as a by-product I can say, or you can say by the over activity of the right hand side channel. The fumes of that activity, like in a factory you see, are collected in the ego. And the activity of the left hand side collects the superego. And that’s how you have ego and superego developed in your brain. So that is how the human being is.