Ego and self confidence - Is there a difference?

I was pondering this question recently and thought I would delve into this further. Let's look at what each of these means to get a better understanding.

Defined by Sigmund Freud, the ego is a part of our personality that deals with reality. He believed that the ego has to deal with the conflicting demands of both the ID and Superego.A person's id seeks to fulfill their wants, needs, and impulses while the superego attempts to get the ego to act in an idealistic and moral manner.

According to Freud's analysis of personality, the id is made up of unconscious psychic energy that wants to satisfy our basic wants and urges and operates on a pleasure principle.

What is Super Ego or superego? In a nutshell, it is our conscious or our sense of right and wrong that we get from our parents and society. It suppresses our unacceptable or immoral urges.

Now we come to self-confidence, which is often mistaken for egotism. Someone who portrays themselves as being self-confident may be seen as having a large ego, being cocky or what we call an Egomaniac. Most of us have had to work with someone we see as having a massive ego, but to be fair, would it actually be that this person is self-confident? Where does self-confidence end and Egotism begin? Firstly, what is self-confidence?

Wikipedia defines confidence, i.e. self-confidence as "a state of being certain either that a hypothesis or prediction is correct or that a chosen course of action is the best or most effective. Self-confidence is having confidence in oneself. "

Then there is Self esteem which, again according to Wikipedia, is " a term used in psychology to reflect a person's overall evaluation or appraisal of his or her own worth".

This is probably a complex question that cannot be answered simply, but we have now defined: Ego, Superego, Self-confidence and Self Esteem to help you get a better understanding of what each term means in relation to our psychy.