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  2. Id, ego and superego - Wikipedia

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    According to Freud as well as ego psychology the id is a set of uncoordinated instinctual needs; the superego plays the judgemental role via internalized experiences; and the ego is the perceiving, logically organizing agent that mediates between the id's innate desires, the demands of external reality and those of the critical superego; [3 ...

  3. Transactional analysis - Wikipedia

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    Ego states do not correspond directly to Sigmund Freud's ego, superego, and id, although there are obvious parallels: Superego/Parent; Ego/Adult; Id/Child. Ego states are consistent for each person, and (argue TA practitioners) are more observable than the components of Freud's model. In other words, the ego state from which someone is ...

  4. I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (video game) - Wikipedia

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    The player disables either the id, superego, or both, then invokes the Totem of Entropy. This ends with the player monitoring the computers, but the ego kills the 750 humans. AM and the Chinese and Russian supercomputers are defeated and the 750 humans cryogenically frozen on Luna are reawakened; Earth is terraformed to become a habitable ...

  5. The Ego and the Id - Wikipedia

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    The Ego and the Id develops a line of reasoning as a groundwork for explaining various (or perhaps all) psychological conditions, pathological and non-pathological alike. . These conditions result from powerful internal tensions—for example: 1) between the ego and the id, 2) between the ego and the super ego, and 3) between the love-instinct and the death-insti

  6. Psychoanalysis - Wikipedia

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    Structural theory divides the psyche into the id, the ego, and the super-ego. The id is present at birth as the repository of basic instincts, which Freud called "Triebe" ("drives"). Unorganized and unconscious, it operates merely on the 'pleasure principle', without realism or foresight.

  7. Freud's psychoanalytic theories - Wikipedia

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    These are ways that the ego develops to help deal with the id and the superego. Defense mechanisms often appear unconsciously and tend to distort or falsify reality. When the distortion of reality occurs, there is a change in perception which allows for a lessening in anxiety resulting in a reduction of tension one experiences.

  8. Ego psychology - Wikipedia

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    Ego psychology is a school of psychoanalysis rooted in Sigmund Freud's structural id-ego-superego model of the mind. An individual interacts with the external world as well as responds to internal forces. Many psychoanalysts use a theoretical construct called the ego to explain how that is done through various ego functions.

  9. Characters of Xenogears - Wikipedia

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    The characters of Xenogears were designed to allude to psychological concepts, most notably of Freudian and Jungian psychology. [4] One of Fei's incarnations is named after French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, [5] but the most obvious allusion is that of Fei's Freudian id, ego and super-ego, which are discussed throughout the story. [6]