id
Meaning
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The unconscious impulsive component of the personality in the Freudian psychoanalytic model.
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɪd/
Etymology
From New Latin id (“it”), chosen by Freud’s translator as a translation of his use of German Es (“it”) as a noun for this concept from the pronoun es (“it”).
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