• Akagigahara@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    It’s the term for the primal urges, and instincts I believe, in Freudian psychology. In German it is “das Es” which would translate to “the It”. More I cannot really explain

      • Akagigahara@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        Yep, I am not entirely sure why English translation chose to go latin, but Ego also is just Latin for I/Ich, which is what Freud called the other two