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id [id]

n.

[ModL < L, it, neut. sing. of is, he: used as transl. of Ger es, it]

Psychoanalysis that part of the psyche which is regarded as the reservoir of the instinctual drives and the source of psychic energy: it is dominated by the pleasure principle and irrational wishing, and its impulses are controlled through the development of the ego and superego