As you examine the relationship between the structural and topographic models of Freud's theory, the ego is found in which part of Freud's topographic model?

A) Conscious
B) Preconscious
C) Unconscious
D) Conscious, preconscious, and unconscious

Topographic Model

Freud’s original model of personality structure, in which personality is divided into three different levels of awareness.

Preconscious

In Freud’s topographic model, the part of personality that contains thoughts that can be brought into awareness with little difficulty.

Ego

In psychoanalytic theory, the part of the personality that mediates between the desires of the id, the norms of the superego, and the realities of the external world.