AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Freud’s conception of the id was that it was a reservoir of instinctual energy driven by the pleasure principle that works toward fulfilling our most basic needs. Freud also compared it to a “cauldron of seething excitations” and described the id as having no real organization.

Detailed explanation-2: -What did Freud consider to be the role of the “id"? To represent innate, instinctive desires and impulses. To be aware of the needs and feelings of those around us. To moderate our impulses, acting as the moral conscience of the mind.

Detailed explanation-3: -The most primitive part of the human mind, the id is the source of our bodily needs, wants, desires, and impulses. Freud believed that the id acts according to the “pleasure principle” – the psychic force that motivates the tendency to seek immediate gratification of any impulse.

Detailed explanation-4: -According to Freudian theory, the id is the component of personality that forms the basis of our most primitive impulses. The id is entirely unconscious, and it drives our most important motivations, including the sexual drive (libido) and the aggressive or destructive drive (Thanatos).

Detailed explanation-5: -According to Freud, there are two classes of instincts: 1) Eros or the sexual instincts, which he later saw as compatible with the self-preservative instincts; and 2) Thanatos or the death-instinct, a natural desire to “re-establish a state of things that was disturbed by the emergence of life” ("Ego and the Id” 709).