Id

Quick meaning: Id is a noun meaning (psychoanalysis) The unconscious impulsive component of the personality in the Freudian psychoanalytic model.

Meaning

(psychoanalysis) The unconscious impulsive component of the personality in the Freudian psychoanalytic model.

More Meanings

1. (computing) Identifier.
2. Alternative spelling of ide (the fish)

Example Sentences

The phenomenon may seem like a random burble of the internet’s id, but Alvarez has been making similarly entrancing—if mostly nonmusical—work for the past few years.

Almost as an afterthought, we’re given an origin story for Barney’s alcoholism: he was once a sober, studious, Ivy League-bound high school scholar before Homer forced a beer on him that transformed him into a drooling, slurring, out of control rampaging id.

"There is one sentence in it, however - namely: 'I protest strongly against the insufferable and entirely dogmatic assertion that each separate id is a microcosm possessed of an historical architecture elaborated slowly through the series of generations.' Have you no desire, in view of later research, to modify this statement?"

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