Distraction, desire and ethics

What does the concept of distraction reveal about the relationship between ethics and (natural) desire? The two appear to be in tension - and morality wins out (or ought to by its own standard) in its artificiality. Can we not simply desire to be good? Perhaps our ethical systems are wrong to characterise desire as an enemy to be fought against, rather than a friend to guide authentic living and self creation. In dividing the psyche, the person, in three - a superego (conscience: ethics), id (desire: natural drive) and ego (the conscious bridge between these parts, balancing their tension: attention allocation, distraction) - Freudian psychoanalytic theory did much to support the false dichotomy between desire and ethics. Like a true 'master of suspicion' to ground the tension in a method, almost scientific in its nature, and plausible in its conclusions.