Word: ids
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Id & I. Freud did a lot of listening to his patients' troubles before he talked about his theories. Most of the human mind, he announced, is like an iceberg. Just as most of the iceberg is out of sight under water, most of the mind is buried deep in the Unconscious. The mind, Freud said, is divided into three parts...
...Id, which makes up most of the Unconscious, contains man's prehistoric, primitive, must-have-it-now, animal drives. The Id's theme song is "I want." Man is born with an Id and soon develops an Ego, which learns the community rules and makes the decisions. The Ego says "I will" or "I won't." Last, there is the Superego, which is the censor or conscience. The Superego says, speaking to the other two, "You must" or "You must not," and demands punishment (in the form of a guilty conscience, worry, etc.) if its commands...
Most personality disorders are caused by conflicts-conscious or unconscious- between selfish desires (the Id), what society demands (the Ego), and what you think is right (the Superego). So Freud concluded, and so most psychiatrists agree...
...late Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia wanted to start a people's opera. Four years ago he did - the non-profit New York City Opera Company -and hired an unsung director named Laszlo Halasz to run it: he was the only applicant who had no pull. But he id have push - enough push to start a small operatic revolution...
...cause. This week, in tense Calcutta and elsewhere in Bengal, worshipers of the goddess Durga will celebrate her festival with clay images and ceremonial parades. Durga is the good side of the same ambivalent goddess of which Kali is the evil face.* In this same week Moslems will celebrate Id-el-Atha, their version of the story of Abraham and Isaac. Usually they sacrifice cows, but this week many, lest the Hindus be offended, plan again to sacrifice sheep.† Even so, the two coincident festivals might touch off killing in Bengal, which, along with Bihar and the United Provinces...