id psychology

in psychoanalysis, an approach that focuses on the unorganized, instinctual impulses contained in the id that seek immediate pleasurable gratification of primitive needs. The id is believed to dominate the lives of infants and is frequently described as primitive and irrational until it is disciplined by the other two major components of the personality: the ego and the superego. Compare ego psychology.

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December 22nd 2024

retinal image

the inverted picture of an external object formed on the retina of the eye. The resolution of the image varies with the diameter of the pupil, the focus becoming sharper as illumination of the object increases and the aperture of the pupil decreases.