In Freud's model of personality, which element of the personality represents a person's efforts to balance the demands of society and innate pleasure-seeking drives?

Ego

Explanation:

Sigmund Freud's famous psychoanalytic theory of personality represents the the complex nature of human behavior and personality. It is composed of three components - id, ego and the superego.

All the three component provide unique features to human personality along with an interdependent responses in the behavior.

Id - the primal human nature right from birth

Ego - is the realistic part that mediates and balances the demands of society and innate pleasure seeking drives, between the desires of the id and super-ego.

super ego - It holds our internal moral standards and the distinction between right and wrong