Barack Obama’s conduct as President baffles us – just as his personality eludes us. Design and purpose seem to be equally lacking even as the man exudes a strong sense of elitist superiority and his ...

According to Sigmund Freud, the human psyche exists in three parts (id, ego and superego) that compete for control of our behaviors. Freud’s conception of the “id” mostly refers to what we would call ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. A new study published in the Journal of Research in Personality explores the ...

Id shmid, ego shmego: that has long summarized my Jewish-inflected disdain for most of psychoanalysis. But as I’ve gotten older (OK, old) and have become perhaps a bit less obsessed with empirical ...

HUMANS are complex beings and there are multiple components that drive our behaviors and affect our personalities, the ego is one of them. There are multiple components that help humans feel a sense ...