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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November 21st 2024

secondary amenorrhea

see amenorrhea.