Id, Ego and Superego Saul McLeod published 2007

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Id, Ego and Superego

Saul McLeod published 2007, updated 2016

https://www.simplypsychology.org/psyche.html



The id (or it)

*The id is the primitive and instinctive component of personality.

* AKA, the motive, driving urge, of the Trump base, unmediated by real education, much less the balancing aspects of the other parts of Freud's tripod of psychological constructs.

Familiar to you, no doubt, but as mysterious as the monolith was to the apes in "2001, A Space Odyssey" to many of the righties who post here.

LOL!

It consists of all the inherited (i.e. biological) components of personality present at birth, including the sex (life) instinct – Eros (which contains the libido), and the aggressive (death) instinct - Thanatos.

(Since updated with the concept of BusyBodyitous to describe the uncontrollable impulse of conservatives to meddle, to insinuate their religious beliefs, to impose 'big gubment' on behalf of their primitive Thanatos driven agendas.)

The id is the impulsive (and unconscious) part of our psyche which responds directly and immediately to the instincts.

The personality of the newborn child is all id and only later does it develop an ego and super-ego. (Maybe, for some of us.)


Freud tripartite personality theory

The id remains infantile in it's function throughout a persons life, and does not change with time or experience, as it is not in touch with the external world. The id is not affected by reality, logic or the everyday world, as it operates within the unconscious part of the mind.

The id operates on the pleasure principle (Freud, 1920) which is the idea that every wishful impulse should be satisfied immediately, regardless of the consequences. When the id achieves its demands we experience pleasure, when it is denied we experience ‘unpleasure’ or tension.

The id engages in primary process thinking, which is primitive, illogical, irrational, and fantasy oriented. This form of process thinking has no comprehension of objective reality, and is selfish and wishful in nature.

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