Talk:Id, ego and superego

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The introduction is wrong. Although ego psychologists may draw from "Ego and the Id" (1923) predominantly (I don't even know if this is true), the first release of the structural model of the mind was in his essay "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" (1920). Here is the quote from Peter Gay, a biographer, and editor of 'The Freud Reader', this is from his introduction to the essay "Beyond the Pleasure Principle: "The essay is a difficult text, but as the first statement of the new 'structural' theory of the mind, it is indispensable to an understanding of fundamental shifts in psychoanalytic thinking" (Gay, pp. 594, "The Freud Reader").

Hello, the redirection of "structural model" to this page is quite surprising. I found the redirection while writing a piece on the different types of computational models in biology, which include for instance models of macromolecule structures, or set of differential equations used in pharmacometrics (also called structural models, to differentiate them from the statistical part of the models). I think we should remove the redirection.Nicolas Gambardella (talk) 15:14, 7 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

There is a whole lot of quoting directly from Freud, can't anyone paraphrase him or secondary references? This isn't wikiquote, and the quotes are kind of heavy for an encyclopaedia. For Thors sake, do something. -- Cimon Avaro; on a pogostick. (talk) 20:04, 12 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to come out here as an armchair editor, but my (albeit) limited understanding of 21st century psychology is that many of Freud's theories are not so much scientifically valid or state-of-the-art at all, and are instead culturally significant holdovers that have colored popular perception of psychology. This article gives the immediate impression that these concepts are not out-of-date. I think that there should be clear reference to that, similar to an article about the ancient 'medical humors' concepts and such. In addition, I came here to look for more information about 'id, ego, and superego' as a literary device spouting out of Freud's work, which I think should be mentioned in the article. 2600:8807:5471:6700:CC8B:E0CE:DD85:9095 (talk) 04:17, 26 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Ego and Non-Ego and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 January 4 § Ego and Non-Ego until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Steel1943 (talk) 20:59, 4 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]