Sigmund freud personality theory
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Id, ego and superego
Psychological concepts by Sigmund Freud
For other uses, see Ego (disambiguation), ID (disambiguation), and Superego (disambiguation).
The id, ego and superego are the three different, functionally interlocking main components of the human soul, as investigated and defined by Sigmund Freud. They represent the structural model of psychoanalysis.
Freud himself used the German terms das Es, Ich, and Über-Ich.
Sigmund freud personality theory
The Latin terms id, ego and superego were chosen by his original translators and have remained in use. The terms soul and psyche here are synonymous in the sense of the human organism as a whole, focussing on the mental aspect without any option of concrete separability from matter and therefore in strict distinction to the religious concept of "soul".
The structural model of the soul was introduced in Freuds essay Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920). It describes the innate needs of the id located in the unconscious as a primary process,