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It is the dark, inaccessible part of our personality, what little we know of it we have learnt from our study of the dream-work and of the construction of neurotic symptoms. . . .we all approach [it] with analogies: we call it a chaos, a cauldron full of seething excitations.

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This is what Freud describes as the Id. The id is part of what makes up human personality and is our most basic human desires. Examples of the id would be food, water, human contact, sex or anything that gives pleasure is desired by the id.
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