
Sigmund Freud’s ”The Ego and the Id”
Theory & Philosophy
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Freud's Concept of the Unconscious as the Id
Freud proposes that we could think about the unconscious as the id, another term that works in conjunction with the ego alongside the ego. So the ego has a relationship with the id in trying to manage it, trying to regulate it and every desire and drive found within it. And one way that the ego is able to do this is through sublimation which assumes many different forms here. This is the act of transforming a desire into something that is socially, culturally acceptable.
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