the part of the unconscious mind where many of a person’s basic needs, feelings and desires are supposed to exist compare ego, superego本我,伊德(指人的潜意识中其基本需求、感情和欲望假定存在的部分) Word Origin1920s: from Latin, literally ‘that’, translating German es. The term was first used in this sense by Freud, following use in a similar sense by his contemporary, Georg Groddeck.