According to Freud, the id is driven solely by impulses. The impulses (thirst, hunger, sexual drive) act as demands and the id seeks to satisfy these demands. The id doesn't care about reality, about the needs of anyone else, only its own satisfaction. The id, according to Freud is the only part that is present at birth. At this stage a person doesn't understand how their actions have anything to do with, or affect their surrounding environment. Thus, their actions might or migh

Neimark, A. “Sigmund Freud: The World Within.” York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976.

would be driven by rigid morals, would be judgmental and unbending in his or her interactions with the world. Freud also suggested that we are constantly experiencing internal conflicts and the outcomes are what decide our behavior. For example, you may now be have an impulse from your id to stop reading this paper and satisfy your boredom with a thrilling novel, but you remain reading because you must finish your job and get give out good grades.

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