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  2. Id, ego and superego - Wikipedia

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    According to Freud as well as ego psychology the id is a set of uncoordinated instinctual needs; the superego plays the judgemental role via internalized experiences; and the ego is the perceiving, logically organizing agent that mediates between the id's innate desires, the demands of external reality and those of the critical superego; [3 ...

  3. Identification (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    It contributes to the development of character and the ego is formed by identification with a group (group norms). Partial identification promotes the social life of persons who will be able to identify with one another through this common bond to one another, instead of considering someone as a rival. [8]

  4. Psychoanalytic literary criticism - Wikipedia

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    Early psychoanalytic literary criticism would often treat the text as if it were a kind of dream. This means that the text represses its real (or latent) content behind obvious (manifest) content. The process of changing from latent to manifest content is known as the dream work and involves operations of concentration and displacement. The ...

  5. Freud's psychoanalytic theories - Wikipedia

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    Freud compared the Id and the Ego to a horse and a rider. The Id is compared to the horse, which is directed and controlled by the Ego, the rider. This example goes to show that although the Id is supposed to be controlled by the Ego, they often interact with one another according to the drives of the Ego. The Id is made up of two biological ...

  6. Personality psychology - Wikipedia

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    Freud divides human personality into three significant components: the id, ego and super-ego. The id acts according to the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification of its needs regardless of external environment; the ego then must emerge in order to realistically meet the wishes and demands of the id in accordance with the outside ...

  7. Psychoanalytic theory - Wikipedia

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    In Freud's model the psyche consists of three different elements, the id, ego, and the superego. The id is the aspect of personality that is driven by internal and basic drives and needs, such as hunger, thirst, and the drive for sex, or libido. The id acts in accordance with the pleasure principle. Due to the instinctual quality of the id, it ...

  8. Ego psychology - Wikipedia

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    Ego psychology is a school of psychoanalysis rooted in Sigmund Freud's structural id-ego-superego model of the mind. An individual interacts with the external world as well as responds to internal forces. Many psychoanalysts use a theoretical construct called the ego to explain how that is done through various ego functions.

  9. Psychic apparatus - Wikipedia

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    The apparatus, as defined by Freud, includes pre-conscious, conscious, and unconscious components. Regarding this, Freud stated: We assume that mental life is the function of an apparatus to which we ascribe the characteristics of being extended in space and of being made up of several portions [Id, ego and super-ego].