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id

Pronunciation: /ɪd/

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Definition of id

noun

Psychoanalysis

the part of the mind in which innate instinctive impulses and primary processes are manifest: the conflict between the drives of the id and the demands of the cultural superegoCompare with ego and superego.

Origin:

1920s: from Latin, literally 'that', translating German es. The term was first used in this sense by Freud, following use in a similar sense by his contemporary, Georg Groddeck