Ids Word Meaning

Etymology:

1920s: from Latin, literally ‘that’, translating German es. The term was first used in this sense by Freud, following use in a similar sense by his contemporary, Georg Groddeck

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Definition:

the part of the mind in which innate instinctive impulses and primary processes are manifest

Short Definition:

part of mind in which innate instinctive impulses and primary processes are manifest

Examples:

• the conflict between the drives of the id and the demands of the cultural superego