The id is the division of the psyche that is completely unconscious. This is where the drives and needs of a person come from. They are driven by instinct, and the psychic energy comes from here. Since it deals with basic instincts, Freud assumed the id is part of the unconscious due to the principles of pleasure, satisfaction, and gratification. Some other characteristics of the id are:
- Instinctive and primitive
- Biological, inherited component of your personality
- Impulsive
- Responds to our urges, needs, and desires
- Infantile in its function
- Does not change with experience or time
- Not affected by reality, logic or the everyday world
- Process thinking, illogical, irrational, and fantasy oriented
- Selfish and wishful in nature