Concept
Id
In Freud's structural model, the oldest and wholly unconscious agency of the mind: the reservoir of the drives, governed by the primary process and the pleasure principle, without organisation, negation or sense of time. Freud took the term from Georg Groddeck and introduced it in Das Ich und das Es (1923); the ego develops out of it under the influence of the external world. 'Id' is the Latin rendering of the German 'das Es' (the it) adopted in English translation.
Development
1923
introduced by Sigmund Freud
Freud took the word das Es from Georg Groddeck, who had it from Nietzsche, and in Das Ich und das Es made it the name of the unconscious reservoir of the drives, out of which the ego is differentiated at its surface under the influence of the outside world.
In The Ego and the Id (1923)
Relations
- 1923 introduced by Sigmund Freud
Freud took the word das Es from Georg Groddeck, who had it from Nietzsche, and in Das Ich und das Es made it the name of the unconscious reservoir of the drives, out of which the ego is differentiated at its surface under the influence of the outside world.
Works
- 1923
The book in which Freud sets out his structural model of the mind. Since much of the ego is itself unconscious, the division conscious/unconscious is not enough. Freud distinguishes the id, a term he takes from Georg Groddeck, as the reservoir of the drives; the ego, the part of the id modified by the influence of the external world, first and foremost a bodily ego; and the super-ego or ego ideal, formed by identification with the parents as the heir of the Oedipus complex. He restates the dualism of life drives and death drives, discusses fusion and defusion of the drives, the unconscious sense of guilt and the negative therapeutic reaction, and ends with the ego as a poor creature serving three masters: the external world, the libido of the id and the severity of the super-ego.
See also
People
References
- The Ego and the Id1923Evidence for a relation