When broken down into the three phases, Freud believes that one can easily see the underdevelopment that occurred in the different phases of Robert's life. “The id is the primitive and instinctive component of the personality. ”(Mcleod) Driven purely by instincts, of which Pickton's impulse was very sexual. It's fair to believe that he pursued the type of women he chose because he felt they could satisfy his sexual needs. Robert may have grown up with internal conflicts that also contributed to this behavior that he chose to express. The id demands immediate satisfaction, otherwise they feel they have failed and this satisfaction came with drugging or intoxication of women because they would easily consent to its acts that way. “The ego develops to mediate between the unrealistic id and the real external world. It is the decision-making component of the personality. Robert may have developed this attitude from the experiences he went through. For example, he is said to have been only 12 years old; her family's pet calf was slaughtered. Also having a strong sense of male dominance, she obviously looks up to her older brother as a role model, as she didn't have the greatest father figure. Her brother, having a history of violence, killed a fourteen-year-old in an accident road In terms of decision making, Robert did not appear to have control over the impulse to kill