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Postby Bailey » Wed Nov 07, 2007 1:41 am

id (d)
n.
In Freudian theory, the division of the psyche that is totally unconscious and serves as the source of instinctual impulses and demands for immediate satisfaction of primitive needs.

[New Latin (translation of German Es, a special use of es, it, as a psychoanalytic term), from Latin, it; see i- in Indo-European roots.]

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Postby Perry » Wed Nov 07, 2007 10:37 am

How come we can have alter egos, but not alter ids? :?
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Postby Bailey » Wed Nov 07, 2007 1:33 pm

Who needs a second reptilian brain?

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