The id is the combination of pleasure-seeking desires and we are born with it. The ego develops later and controls the desires of the id. The superego is the moralistic part of the personality that develops as the child interacts with significant others such as his or her parents. The Superego can be considered as consciousness. It is the role of the ego to maintain a balance between the id and the superego. Freud believed that children pass through five stages of development, known as the psychosexual stages because of Freud's emphasis on sexuality as the fundamental developmental impulse. These stages are: the oral stage, the anal stage, the phallic stage, the latency period and finally the genital stage. The phallic stage, from three to five years old, is the stage where the child's sexual identification is established. During this stage, Freud hypothesized that a young boy would experience what he called the Oedipus complex. This would create very troubling conflicts for the child, which had to be resolved by identifying the child with the same sex..