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PSYCHIC APPARATUS [1 record]

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Record 1 2000-03-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personality Development
  • Clinical Psychology
DEF

The arrangement of the psyche for purposes of description and interpretation, consisting of the id, the ego, and the superego.

CONT

Psychic apparatus was first used by Freud to describe the interrelated processes of the mind; a functional, not anatomical concept: perception, memory, and motility.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Développement de la personnalité
  • Psychologie clinique
DEF

Modèle fonctionnel présentant le psychisme comme un agencement de systèmes et instances interdépendants [...]

Spanish

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