RE: ID or Id?

Subject: RE: ID or Id?
From: "Christopher Burd" <cburd -at- islandnet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 17:16:08 -0800


Martyn Perry <Martyn -dot- Perry -at- Sun -dot- COM> wrote:

>>Furthermore, "Id" is an actual word, coined by good old Dr. Freud.

>Der gute Herr Doktor did not coin the word "id." He merely assigned a
special
>meaning the Latin n. nom. sing. personal pron. "id," which means it. The
masc.
>nom. sing. nom. is "is" and the fem. nom. sing. is "ea," for completeness'
sake.
>"Ego" is the nom. sing of the Latin word for "I."

To be pedantic about, it wasn't Dr. F. at all, it was his English
translator,
James Strachey. Freud coined the terms "das Es", "das Ich", and "das
Ueber-Ich",
meaning literally, "the it", "the I" and "the Over-I". Apparently the
direct translations weren't classy enough for Strachey, so he Latinised
them.

Well, my dad was a Freudian psychologist...

Cheers,

Chris



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