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Id, ego and superego — Wikipedia (en)

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In psychoanalytic theory, the id, ego, and superego are three distinct, interacting agents in the psychic apparatus, outlined in Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche. The three agents are theoretical constructs that Freud employed to describe the basic structure of mental life as it was encountered in psychoanalytic practice. Freud himself used the German terms das Es, Ich, and Über-Ich, which literally translate as "the it", "I", and "over-I". The Latin terms id, ego and superego were chosen by his original translators and have remained in use. The structural model was introduced in Freud's essay Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) and further refined and formalised in later essays such as The Ego and the Id (1923). Freud developed the model in response to the perceived ambiguity of the terms "conscious" and "unconscious" in his earlier topographical model. Broadly speaking, the id is the organism's unconscious array of uncoordinated instinctual needs, impulses and desires; the superego is the part of the psyche that has internalised social rules and norms, largely in response to parental demands and prohibitions in childhood; the ego is the integrative agent that directs activity based on mediation between the id's energies, the demands of external reality, and the moral and critical constraints of the superego. Freud compared the ego, in its relation to the id, to a man on horseback: the rider must harness and direct the superior energy of his mount, and at times allow for a practicable satisfaction of its urges. The ego is thus "in the habit of transforming the id's will into action, as if it were its own."

Tema degli esploratori: agenti e intelligenza artificiale (deposito sistematico; ricerca «agent-based model»).
Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Id, ego and superego» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego_and_superego
Wikidata Q486893: «concetto della psicoanalisi» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q486893
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego_and_superego?action=history).
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