Read the Quote from Freud Below, Which Describes a Part

question 38

Multiple Choice

Read the quote from Freud below, which describes a part of the mind as he theorized it. "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."
Which part of the mind was he talking about?

• A) the id
• B) the ego
• C) the superego
• D) the conscience

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Definitions:

Systematic Observations

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Phenomenon Understanding

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Bully

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