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Originally Posted by amee200
The id is the inner child so to speak, not the adult. Terminology aside, I am not a big fan of focusing on this part of ourselves. The id exists in everyone and everyone's is shaped by childhood experiences, but we can not give into it. Whatever traumas we experienced the real goal is to reach our fullest potential as the adults we have become. You can acknowledge and accept your past, but you can't change it. You can only change the present and future. Indulging our "inner child" doesn't seem healthy and is avoidant of what's happening right now.
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The ego that is the inner child. It's the child-like side that wants to be satisfied right now. Think of how a small child wants what it wants when it wants it and has temper tantrums when it doesn't get what it wants when it wants it. The super ego is societal rules and keeps the ego "in check". The Id is the part of us that is present in the world. Inner child work isn't about indulging. It's having that part of us "grow up" so we stop "acting out" negative child like behaviors (demanding/temper tantrums) while keeping the fun and creative behaviors. When we say someone is egotistical or has a big ego, we are saying they believe they deserve to have what they want when they want it and they take great pleasure in displaying their "toys" (cars, boats, jewelry, expensive clothes, etc.).