• Akagigahara@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      It’s the term for the primal urges, and instincts I believe, in Freudian psychology. In German it is “das Es” which would translate to “the It”. More I cannot really explain

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        7 months ago

        I guess, “id” is just Latin for “it”… 🙃

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          7 months ago

          Yep, I am not entirely sure why English translation chose to go latin, but Ego also is just Latin for I/Ich, which is what Freud called the other two