id (id) in psychoanalytic theory, the innate, unconscious, primitive aspect of the personality dominated by the pleasure principle and seeking immediate gratification.
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| ID abbr. infecting dose |
id ( d)n. In psychoanalytic 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. |
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Etymology: L, it
1 (in freudian psychoanalysis) the part of the psyche, functioning in the unconscious, that is the source of instinctive energy, impulses, and drives. It is based on the pleasure principle and has strong tendencies toward self-preservation. Compare ego, superego.
2 the true unconscious.
ID,
abbreviation for infectious disease.
id (id),
n the part of the psyche functioning in the unconscious that is the source of instinctive energy, impulses, and drives. It is based on the pleasure principle and has strong tendencies toward self-preservation. The full taxonomy includes the id, the ego, and the superego.
ID
1. infective dose.
2. L-iditol dehydrogenase.
Id
idiotype.
id
see dermatophytid.
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Psychiatry The unconscious source–per the freudian construct of mental energies, libido, unstructured desires and drives. See Ego, Superego. Cf Id reaction.
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