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"[[ego-psychology]]" ([[Fr]]. ''[[psychologie du moi]]'')
 
"[[ego-psychology]]" ([[Fr]]. ''[[psychologie du moi]]'')
  
 
[[Ego-psychology]] has been -- since its development in the 1930s -- the dominant [[school]] of [[psychoanalysis]] in the [[International Psycho-Analytical Association]] ([[IPA]]).
 
[[Ego-psychology]] has been -- since its development in the 1930s -- the dominant [[school]] of [[psychoanalysis]] in the [[International Psycho-Analytical Association]] ([[IPA]]).
  
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==Sigmund Freud==
  
It draws mainly on [[Freud]]'s [[structural model]] of the [[psyche]] -- which was first put forward in ''[[The Ego and the Id]]'' (1923).  
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It draws mainly on [[Freud]]'s [[structural model]] of the [[psyche]], which was first put forward in ''[[The Ego and the Id]]'' (1923).  
  
 
This model comprises three agencies: the [[id]], the [[ego]], and the [[superego]].
 
This model comprises three agencies: the [[id]], the [[ego]], and the [[superego]].
  
This model comprises three agencies:
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Since the [[ego]] plays a crucial role in mediating between the conflicting [[demand]]s of the [[instinctual]] [[id]], the [[moralistic]] [[superego]] and [[external]] [[reality]], more attention began to be paid to its [[development]] and [[structure]].
* the [[id]],  
 
* the [[ego]], and  
 
* the [[superego]].
 

Revision as of 18:01, 30 July 2006

"ego-psychology" (Fr. psychologie du moi)

Ego-psychology has been -- since its development in the 1930s -- the dominant school of psychoanalysis in the International Psycho-Analytical Association (IPA).

Sigmund Freud

It draws mainly on Freud's structural model of the psyche, which was first put forward in The Ego and the Id (1923).

This model comprises three agencies: the id, the ego, and the superego.

Since the ego plays a crucial role in mediating between the conflicting demands of the instinctual id, the moralistic superego and external reality, more attention began to be paid to its development and structure.