How does memory shape our self?

After reading, discussing and understanding psychoanalysis I believe that our memories shape our selves. Based of Freud’s structure of the psyche: the ID, ego and super ego, I came to understand the difference between them and the importance each one has in the formation of our “Self”. Starting with the ID, being our purest self, the “desiring part of us”, then comes the Ego that arises when one is born, “emerging into a world of others”, and latter comes the Super Ego, that includes the moral values and the law.

 

Having said that, I believe that who we are is a development and the sum of all our memories including: relationships, traumas, etc. In this development, one is able to create one’s personality, values, beliefs, create opinion, distinguish what one likes and what one dislikes and eventually transform into becoming ones “self”.  Freud also believes that our unconscious takes part in the creation of our “self”, this is where all of our repressed memories are kept and locked away. These might appear in dreams, but eventually these will be projected through our “self” someday. This is why all of our memories, conscious and un conscious ones develop and transform our “self”.