However, I am reluctant to believe that libidos, ids, egos, and superegos determine all conduct.
Actions vary from time to time and place to place, while personalities are supposedly more fixed.
For example, most people with violent personalities do not act violent all the time or all their lives. This is why pop-culture Freudians tend to dwell on recurrent actions and trends, while downplaying or ignoring unique events and their details. Beware of using people's social or psychological pasts to explain what they do in the present or will do in the future, because you risk using a constant to explain a variable and missing the magic of the moment . Although I don't agree with all of Freud's ideas, I nevertheless find psychoanalytical texts quite thought provoking.