id
[id]
- the part of the psyche, residing in the unconscious, that is the source of instinctive impulses that seek satisfaction in accordance with the pleasure principle and are modified by the ego and the superego before they are given overt expression.
Origin of id
1920–25; < Latin id it, as a translation of German Es, special use of es it, as a psychoanalytic term
ID
[ahy-dee]
- a means of identification, as a card or bracelet containing official or approved identification information.
- to identify.
- to issue an ID to: Go to the admissions office if you haven't been ID'd yet.
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Examples from the Web for ids
Contemporary Examples
We follow the line inside through a quiet, dentist office-like reception area where IDs are checked.
Similarly, poor voters lacking drivers licenses may have to travel up to 250 miles roundtrip at their own expense to get IDs.
The plaintiffs charged that the law burdened low-income Indianans and others who lacked access to IDs.
“When we first came they were asking for our IDs and who we were,” Levine said.
Volunteers Provide a Reason to Give Thanks in Sandy-Savaged RockawaysMatthew DeLuca
November 22, 2012
The bloggers' cellphones and IDs were taken by Egyptian police.
Historical Examples
The determinants, ids, and idants, are purely hypothetical elements.
Evolution in Modern ThoughtErnst Haeckel
That is why it is said that the Ids do not know the home world from which they originally came.
Cubs of the WolfRaymond F. Jones
But for my money I'd just as soon tackle the question of the Ids.
Cubs of the WolfRaymond F. Jones
The Ids get what they want, and we get sarghs with nothing like the slave relationship you had in mind.
Cubs of the WolfRaymond F. Jones
The basic premise of the Ids is asceticism and there never was any strength in that idea.
Cubs of the WolfRaymond F. Jones
ID
- Idaho
- identification (document)
- Also: i.d inside diameter
- Intelligence Department
- Also: i.d intradermal
id1
- psychoanal the mass of primitive instincts and energies in the unconscious mind that, modified by the ego and the superego, underlies all psychic activity
Word Origin
C20: New Latin, from Latin: it; used to render German Es
id2
- Indonesia
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Word Origin and History for ids
id
n.
1924, in Joan Riviere's translation of Freud's "Das Ich und das Es" (1923), from Latin id "it" (translation of German es "it" in Freud's title), used in psychoanalytical theory to denote the unconscious instinctual force. Latin id is from PIE pronomial stem *i- (see yon).
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id
(ĭd)
- In psychoanalytic theory, the division of the psyche that is totally unconscious and serves as the source of instinctual impulses and demands for immediate satisfaction of primitive needs.
ID
- infecting dose
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id
In Freudian theory, the part of the psyche associated with instinctual, repressed, or antisocial desires, usually sexual or aggressive. In its efforts to satisfy these desires, the id comes into conflict with the social and practical constraints enforced by the ego and superego. (See also pleasure principle.)
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