Id, ego and super-ego
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Id, ego and super-ego are the three parts of the psychic apparatus defined in Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche; they are the three theoretical constructs in terms of whose activity and interaction mental life is described. According to this model of the psyche, the id is the set of uncoordinated instinctual trends; the ego is the organised, realistic part; and the super-ego plays the critical and moralising role.
- "The ego is not sharply separated from the id; its lower portion merges into it. . . . But the repressed merges into the id as well, and is merely a part of it. The repressed is only cut off sharply from the ego by the resistances of repression; it can communicate with the ego through the id." --Sigmund Freud, 1923
In psychodynamics, the Id, Ego, and Super-Ego are the divisions of the psyche according to psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud's "structural theory." In 1923, Freud introduced new terms to describe the division between the conscious and unconscious: 'id,' 'ego,' and 'super-ego.' He thought these terms offered a more compelling description of the dynamic relations between the conscious and the unconscious. The “id” (fully unconscious) contains the drives and those things repressed by consciousness; the “ego” (mostly conscious) deals with external reality; and the “super ego” (partly conscious) is the conscience or the internal moral judge (The Freud Exhibit: L.O.C.).
See also
People:
- Abraham, Karl
- Adler, Alfred
- Cerda, Victor
- Ferenczi, Sándor
- Freud, Sigmund
- Jones, Ernest
- Jung, Carl
- Klein, Melanie
- Lacan, Jacques
- Laplanche, Jean
- Loevinger, Jane
- Rank, Otto
- Reich, Wilhelm
- Žižek, Slavoj
Related topics:
- Ahaṃkāra
- Alter ego
- Collective unconscious
- Consciousness
- Defence mechanism
- The Ego and the Id
- Egolessness
- Existentialism
- Ho'oponopono
- Individual
- Instinct
- Interpassivity
- Mind
- Nafs
- Personhood
- Psychoanalysis
- Psychodynamics
- Reductionism
- Self (psychology)
- Shoulder angel
- Transactional analysis
- Unconscious mind
