ABSTRACT
It is a very curious fact that the psychology of the unconscious, the postulation of an unconscious mind which we call the id, once the most controversial point about the whole of psychoanalytic theory, has, with time, become the most familiar idea to us. People find it very difficult to imagine that the unconscious is rectify unconscious. When people talk of id, ego, and superego and are aware of what has to happen in an analytic treatment, they usually regard the unconscious as a small addition to the conscious personality. There is increasing realization that the ego, regarded as a structure, has powerful unconscious roots and functions, which develop autonomously. Anna Freud's formulation is clearly intended to counter the tendency to underestimate the force of the drives and the degree to which they are unconscious.
