The misunderstood story of Phineas Gage shows that we need a new way of understanding the experiences of brain injury ...

Conscious experience — as we know it — might be a really useful trick for adapting to our environments and achieving the goals that further life’s crusade against entropy and death.

A ncient man had a psyche, by which he meant a soul. Modern man has a psyche, by which he is apt to mean a cumbersome machine full of id and superego, conscious and unconscious, with optional ...

The Freudian motivation theory explains the sales process in terms of a consumer fulfilling conscious, functional needs, such as blinds to cover a window, as well as unconscious needs, such as the ...

Freud's structural model of personality divides the human psychological system into three primary domains: the id, the ego, and the superego. The ego refers to the self-conscious domain of "I-myself." ...

The superego seems to become most potent when the demands of civilization are high. The over-I, which is actually the best translation of Freud’s German term Über-Ich, thrives and expands when social ...

If superego is the presiding priest of God devotion and civilized control, and if the bulk of ego worships God in Red and Blue political churches, id hasn’t had a stand-alone political ...

The superego allows for the interjection of various value systems (parental, societal, etc.) so that the individual can operate within society’s moral standards.