![]() ![]() It is the reservoir of basic instinctual drives, particularly sexual (libidinal) drives, which motivate the organism to seek pleasure. The id is the oldest and most primitive psychic agency, representing the biological foundations of personality. Sigmund Freud divided mental life into three agencies or "provinces," id, ego, superego. Transference In the therapeutic situation, the (unconscious) incorporation of the analyst in the internal conflicts of the patient. In contrast, secondary process, attributed to ego functioning, attempts to postpone, revise, or otherwise deflect instinctual motivations. Instinctual energy is freely mobile, and capable of displacement and condensation. Primary process The workings of unconscious (id) processes. Pleasure principle The motivating principle of behavior is the pursuit of tension reduction, which is experienced as pleasure. Freud once suggested that the course of Oedipal development between boys and girls was exactly analogous, but later formulations postponed the resolution of the Oedipal conflict for girls until marriage and childbirth. This is resolved by repressing incestuous desires, and identifying with the same-sex parent, which is the foundation of superego formation. The competition for the opposite-sex parent engenders anxiety, insofar as the retaliation of the rival is feared ("castration complex"). Oedipus complex The libidinal cathexis of phallic erotogenic zone leads to a desire for union and contact with the opposite-sex parent, and a concomitant desire to displace the same-sex rival parent. Libido The name reserved for the sexual instincts. The sexual instinct is thus a composite instinct, only to become organized in the service of reproductive, genital sexuality upon maturity. Erotogenic zones The zones of the body (oral, anal, phallic) that are sequentially invested withsexualized energy (libido), and are hence the source of autoerotic pleasure. This is in contrast to the opposing tendency to reduce life to an inanimate state, or the "death instinct," which is revealed by aggression and sadism. It is described as "life" instinct, the "preserver of all things," incorporating the elements of sexuality and self-preservation. Glossary Eros One of the two classes of instincts that motivate behavior. ![]()
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