How is the superego formed?

Every individual in society will transform into a complete social being with the help of the process of socialization. This process makes the individual learn the skills and knowledge to communicate with the people at an early stage of life. The family is the one that will play a significant role in the early stage, where it introduces the individual to the cultural values, beliefs, and norms to which the individual has to adhere while exhibiting the behavior.

As the family is responsible for the socialization, there are also develops some socio-psychological consequences that are negative to the individual. The superego is a theory formulated by Sigmund Freud as an agency in the development of the human personality. The superego is considered as the ethical component of the personality, and it provides the moral standards by which the ego operates. The culture primarily introduces morals and ethics to the individual at the early phase of socialization. The superego will develop in the initial five years of the life of an individual. It develops as a response to the punishment and approvals given by the parents. It develops when the child internalizes the parents' moral standards, which is to identify themselves with the parents. It will absorb the traditions followed by the family and the surrounding society, which performs to control the aggressive or unacceptable behavior by the society that the individual may exhibit. This superego will continue to develop into the individuals in their young adulthood as a person where he/she encounters the roles models which they admire and copes with the rules and regulations of the society.