Id "
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 organized, realistic part; and the
super-ego plays the critical and moralizing." From wiwki.
"It is the dark, inaccessible part of our personality, what little we know of it we have learned from our study of Dreamwork and of the construction of neurotic symptoms, and most of that is of a negative character and can be described only as a contrast to the ego. We approach the id with analogies: we call it a chaos, a cauldron full of seething excitations... It is filled with energy reaching it from the instincts, but it has no organization, produces no collective will, but only a striving to bring about the satisfaction of the instinctual needs subject to the observance of the pleasure principle." Sigmund Freud,
New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis[1933] (Penguin Freud Library 2) p. 105-6.
The Id is not an ID.... it is a construct (model) of the unconscious mind in paychology.
