IDing

Variant of id

id definition

id (id)

noun

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

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

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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