Thinking Out Loud
THERE IS NO DEVIL, THERE'S ONLY GOD WHEN HE'S DRUNK
One of the great challenges of making sense of the world is our natural human tendency to reify our favourite theories. In other words, we become so convinced by a concept that you begin to believe that it is an actual thing in the world and not just an idea in your head.
IT, ME, AND OVER-ME
Although the conventional names (Id, Ego, and Superego) have been in use from the very first translations of Freud's work in 1924, they are actually a mistranslation. Their use has caused decades of unnecessary confusion and so-called discussion (aka, bitter intellectual squabbling) for analysts, psychotherapists, psychologists, and lay-people alike.
ON METAPHOR
In the correct translation, it's obvious what Freud was trying to articulate: each of us has three basic components to the cognitive and emotional processes which govern our behaviour, and each has a particular character which sets it apart from the others.