Id

Let's imagine that you are an infant. At this point, all of your awareness is centered on satisfying basic needs. You feel hungry and you demand food. You want to be touched, so you demand to be held. Since you have no understanding of right or wrong and are not aware of the needs of others, all that exists for you is your desire for what you need or want at any given moment. Most of these desires are based on pure, uncontrolled instinct.
In this example, your actions are controlled by the id. According to Freud, the id is the biological component of our personality which is present at birth and is based on instinct.
In Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic view, the personality consists of three parts: the id, the ego, and the superego. The id is the biological component (instinct), the ego is the psychological component (conscious decision), and the superego is the social component (conscience). These three components function together to determine behavior.
The id exists in your unconscious, or outside of your awareness. Since the id is not part of your awareness, the desires of the id are not manipulated by experience or thought. The other personality components develop with age and experience, but the id never matures and continues to be driven by desire alone. The id does not think but only wants or acts.

Characteristics of the id include:
-unorganized
-demanding and insistent
-illogical
-lacks morals
-instinctual
-selfish
-unconscious

“Why am I like this? Must be my id.”

by Guardien December 25, 2025

id-10t error

Similar to a pebcak error. ID-10-t is idiot with a 10 instead of io in the middle.

computer user: I can't get my computer to work. The coofe cup holder is broken.
Helpdesk: Coffee cup holder?
Computer user: Yeah, my new computer has a coffe cup holder. You press a button and a tray comes out to place a coffe cup on.
Helpdesk (on mute and to a coworker): Hey Phil, I have a an ID-10T error on the phone. To computer user: Ma'am, That is not a coffee cup holder, that is your cd-rom.
Computer user: Oh. Are you sure?
Helpdesk: ARRRRGHGGGGHHHH!!!!!

by Starknight August 19, 2006

id Software

The creators of high-quality video games such as DooM, Quake, Wolfenstein, and several others. It's based somewhere near Mesquite, Texas. In short, id Software is one of the best (if not the best) game companies in the world.

Id--in Freudian theology, it is the primal part of the human psyche. Id Software--"one of the hottest game shops on Earth."

by Rockman Snake June 18, 2004

[ID-Hoe]

1.Someone you pay for a fake ID.

Jake is still 16 and has to go find an ID-Hoe.

by Bradford Leigh January 1, 2009

ID-10T

Code name used to describe a situation where someone is having complex problems with a simple solution.

Also see pebkac
And you still dont get it, see idiot

After Jim called tech support to tell them that the cup holder on his PC's wasnt functioning, they labled his claim under ID-10T.

by echoes February 24, 2004

id nazi

a security guard at a club who is very strict and wouldnt let in a old man without id

dude, we are never gonna get in to club ownage. the guard is such an id nazi

by atomicchronic February 9, 2003

Id like to see you try

Means the person is doubting your ability and is taunting you.

Like you won't actually do it or be capable to accomplish that task

Person 1: I can totally kick your ass
Person 2: Id like to see you try (doesn't really think you can do it)
and either person 1 steps up to the challenge or sits down like a lil b****

by soffG November 19, 2018