Id, Ego, And The Superego

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of view. The fourth is the formal operational stage; children are able to abstract thought, to image, to fantasize beyond reality. According to George H. Mead, self is shaped not at birth but developed during the growth of social experience. Using the communication of symbol, imaging the opponent's situation, taking other people's role, we can social and interact with others. Mead also argue that people are social objects, the object element of self is "me" and the active (subjective) self is "I", where I takes the action and me reflectively take other's role and review people's reaction. However, Charles Horton Cooley believed that the process of self-realization is more like a looking into glass image. People we social with are the mirrors which their reaction upon us reflected to tell us the psychological self.
In conclusion, physical maturity enables the growth of social experience, despite of "actionary I" or "objective me", we see ourselves from other people's feedback ...

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