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Concepts
Psychosexual development
Psychosocial development
Conscious • Preconscious • Unconscious
Psychic apparatus
Id, ego, and super-ego
Libido • Drive
Transference • Ego defenses • Resistance The term psychic apparatus (sometimes translated as psychical apparatus or mental apparatus) is a central concept of Freudian metapsychology. (Freud himself used the German terms psychischer Apparat and seelischer Apparat). "We assume that mental life is the function of an apparatus to which we ascribe the characteristics of being extended in space and of being made up of several portions [i.e. the Id, ego, and super-ego]" [Freud, 'An Outline of Pshychoanalysis (1940)] As Freud explained
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