In psychoanalytic theory the “id, the ego and the superego” are three different, interacting agents in the
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In order to overcome difficulties of understanding as far as possible, Freud formulated his "metapsychology" which for Lacan represents a technical elaboration of the concepts of the soul model: dividing the organism in… See more

Freud's basic metapsychological thesis is that the living soul with their needs, consciousness and imprinted memory resembles a psychological apparatus to which "spatial extension and composition of several pie… See more

In his earlier "topographic model", Freud divided the psyche into three "regions" or "systems": "the Conscious", that which is present to awareness at the surface level of the psyche in any given moment, including information … See more

The terms "id", "ego", and "superego" are not Freud's own; they are Latinizations by his translator James Strachey. Freud himself wrote of "das Es", "das Ich", and "das Über-Ich" —respectively, "the It", "the I", and "the … See more

• Censorship (psychoanalysis) – Barrier of the conscious and unconscious
• Ego death – Complete loss of subjective self-identity
• Plato's theory of soul – Plato's account of the soul as consisting of logical, spirited, and appetiti… See more