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  2. Id, ego and superego - Wikipedia

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    In this ego psychology model of the psyche, the id is a set of uncoordinated instinctual needs; the superego plays the moralizing role via internalized experiences; and the ego is the perceiving, logically organizing agent that mediates between the id's instinctual desires, the demands of external reality and those of the critical superego; [3 ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. The Ego and the Id - Wikipedia

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    The Ego and the Id develops a line of reasoning as a groundwork for explaining various (or perhaps all) psychological conditions, pathological and non-pathological alike. . These conditions result from powerful internal tensions—for example: 1) between the ego and the id, 2) between the ego and the super ego, and 3) between the love-instinct and the death-insti

  5. Identification (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    For example: a group of people who like the same music. This mechanism plays an important role in the formation of groups. It contributes to the development of character and the ego is formed by identification with a group (group norms).

  6. Characters of Xenogears - Wikipedia

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    The characters of Xenogears were designed to allude to psychological concepts, most notably of Freudian and Jungian psychology. [4] One of Fei's incarnations is named after French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, [5] but the most obvious allusion is that of Fei's Freudian id, ego and super-ego, which are discussed throughout the story. [6]

  7. 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 ...

  8. The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of ...

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    A four-term structure maps the Real, the Imaginary and the Symbolic as replacing the second Freudian topography: ego/id/superego. Two diagonals intersect, while the imaginary rapport links a (the ego) to a' (the other), the line going from S (the subject, the Freudian id) to A (the Other) is interrupted by the first one. The Other is difficult ...

  9. Psychoanalytic theory - Wikipedia

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    The superego is driven by the morality principle. It enforces the morality of social thought and action on an intrapsychic level. It employs morality, judging wrong and right and using guilt to discourage socially unacceptable behavior. [9] [10] The ego is driven by the reality principle. The ego seeks to balance the conflicting aims of the id ...