ABSTRACT
Clinical psychology, or at least its analytical branch, is forced to regard this id as the source of all the dynamic energy of every level of the mental apparatus, and, therefore, of primary importance for its purposes. The id receives stimulation from all somatic sources and accumulates energy or tension which, like spinal cord, it would automatically discharge along inherited paths. To return to concept of conflict between id and ego, and process of repression whereby the ego endeavours to keep the id in order. The task of the ego is a difficult one. It constantly fears the vengeance of super-ego if it is overwhelmed by more powerful id. Topographical concepts include, besides the id, super-ego and ego already mentioned, the equally important concepts of conscious and unconscious. These are conceived as cutting across the other topographical divisions of the mind in such a way that while the id and the greater part of the super-ego are wholly unconscious.
