Id is a concept of Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis. The id is the unconscious drives and psychic energies of humans as biological organisms. Id is untouched by culture and social learning and encompasses all that is primitive, natural and pre-civilized in human passions and energies. Freud seems to have assumed that the human struggle to achieve self consciousness against the ungoverned and unconstrained passions of the id, remained deeply buried in the unconscious minds of all human beings. Superego is a concept developed by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud that describes one of three components of the individual personality or self. Sigmund Freud, who coined the name narcissism believed that some Narcissism is an essential part of all of us from birth.
The Ego is the outcome of the individual's struggle to adapt their basic drives or the ‘id’ to the imperative control of society and culture or superego. Freud's metaphorical mapping of the psyche into regions called id, ego and superego, it made me uneasy. There seemed to be something sadly flawed about his apparent conception of the instinctual realm as profoundly base, dangerous and untrustworthy.
Freeing the Id: Deconstructing the
Colonial Basis to Freud's Ego, Id, Superego - Rachael Vaughan.
Abstract: On close reading, Freud's conception of id, ego and superego reveals itself
to be founded on a colonialist metaphor in which the id is equated with similar qualities
to those projected onto the natives in the colonies of the time. Freud’s work necessarily
participates in the ideology of empire. If we can however, step outside of id, ego and
superego ideology, we can reread his work less as a true description of the internal
psychic economy and more as a fascinating revelation of the process of colonization. In
our current context of globalization, this issue is more
relevant than ever before.
Freud's Id and Jung's Self as aids
in Self-Analysis - Alfred B. J. Plaut
Abstract: The id and the self are described as constructs of our unconscious which can be
deployed in describing the analytic process. They can be used like the x in mathematics or
the joker in a pack of cards as fitting in almost anywhere. But we can call on them as
important aids to concentration, when additional room is made for meditating on the past
which then comes to life again. They are useful for analysing ourselves and others. In
this way the id as well as the self become aide-memoires.
Origin of the id: Freud, Groddeck, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and E. von Hartmann - Nitzschke B.
The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud, Joan Riviere, Review: Karl M. Bowman.
Disney and Freud: Walt Meets the Id - The Journal of Popular Culture xv (4).