{"id":8180,"date":"2019-05-22T16:04:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/id\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:04:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:04:54","slug":"id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/id\/","title":{"rendered":"Id"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the tripartite model of the psychic apparatus in Freudian psychoanalytical theory, it is the deepest (i.e., true unconscious) component of the psyche. &nbsp;Hermetically sealed from the outside world, it is the instinctive desire to achieve one&#8217;s own aims that is governed by the pleasure-pain principle. &nbsp;Both the ego and the superego develop from the id and both are in constant conflict with it. &nbsp;Freud&#8217;s original use of the term derived from the German words <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">das Es<\/span> (the It), which were translated into English as id. &nbsp;He was at pains to point out that is was a metaphor designed to capture a system of action and behavior, something that appears to be neglected contemporary psychoanalytic writings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;See <a href=\"anhedonia\">Anhedonia<\/a>, <a href=\"ego\">Ego<\/a>, <a href=\"metaphor\">Metaphor<\/a>, <a href=\"pleasure-pain_principle\">Pleasure-pain principle<\/a>, <a href=\"psychodynamic_theory\">Psychodynamic theory<\/a>, <a href=\"psychoanalysis\">Psychoanalysis<\/a>, Superego   <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the tripartite model of the psychic apparatus in Freudian psychoanalytical theory, it is the deepest (i.e., true unconscious) component of the psyche. &nbsp;Hermetically sealed from the outside world, it is the instinctive desire to achieve one&#8217;s own aims that is governed by the pleasure-pain principle. &nbsp;Both the ego and the superego develop from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/id\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Id&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}