The statement 'the ego is dependent on the id' would most likely reflect the work of

• A. Carl Jung
• B. Sigmund Freud
• C. Erik Erikson
• D. Alfred Adler

Answer: (B)

The key idea here is Freud’s structural model of personality, where the ego develops from the id and acts as the reality mediator. The id contains primitive drives and seeks immediate gratification, while the ego grows out of those drives and learns to balance them with the demands of the real world. Because the ego emerges from the energy and constraints of the id, it’s described as dependent on the id in Freud’s framework. This distinction helps explain why the statement fits Freud: he specifically locates the ego’s origins in the id and centers its role on managing reality, rather than on other forces or later developmental processes emphasized by the other theorists.