Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. U.S. trade policy has an ego problem. This may sound odd after four years of chest-thumping “America First!” but this is a ...

The ego keeps the id’s impulses in check and ensures they are expressed in a socially acceptable manner. The id is present from birth and is a primary element of personality.

Id shmid, ego shmego: that has long summarized my Jewish-inflected disdain for most of psychoanalysis.But as I’ve gotten older (OK, old) and have become perhaps a bit less obsessed with ...

There’s an academic exercise in psychology classes that asks students to take Sigmund Freud’s concept of the id, ego, and superego and apply it to characters from The Simpsons. Homer’s impulsiveness ...

In other, more Freudian words, when our id—”the dark, inaccessible part of our personality,” where our innermost urges live—is in conflict with itself, or with the outside world, our ego ...

Id shmid, ego shmego: that has long summarized my Jewish-inflected disdain for most of psychoanalysis.But as I’ve gotten older (OK, old) and have become perhaps a bit less obsessed with ...