Freud vs Horkheimer and Adorno

It is not uncommon for humans to take ideas from others and expand on them. Whether it is to change the idea or improve upon it, we all take previous notions and adjust them for our purposes. This is the case with the book Dialectic of Enlightenment by Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno. They have taken some of Sigmund Freud’s most famous ideas, along with many of their own, and modified them into a different way of thinking.
In Freud’s book, New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, he refers to the concepts of the id, ego and superego. Freud’s theory states that,
“The superego applies the strictest moral standard to the helpless ego which is at its mercy; in general the claims of morality, and we realize all at once that our moral sense of guilt is the expression of the tension between the ego and the superego.” (Page 76)
In other words, the superego is like the conscience of the ego and plays a major role in telling the ego what it should and sho...