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that brings out the id in each of us

English translation: that makes us behave instinctively, irrationally, without thinking logically

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English term or phrase:that brings out the id in each of us
Selected answer:that makes us behave instinctively, irrationally, without thinking logically
Entered by: Jack Doughty

09:22 Feb 26, 2017
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English term or phrase: that brings out the id in each of us
Hello everyone,

Even without the hold time, the satisfaction that accompanies getting a complaint off your chest by shouting it into a telephone is palpable even when you’re just leaving a voice mail. There’s something about vocalizing your complaints that brings out the id in each of us. This voice mail left for the Jimmy Dean sausage company is a particularly fine example:

This is Randy Taylor. I don’t know where you people come from. I don’t know if you test your products, your quality of your products. Your products are very delicious. I’ve loved your sausage for thirtysomething years, but I can’t take and feed a family of five on a little ­twelve-ounce roll of sausage. I don’t mind paying you more money for your sixteen­-ounce roll of sausage, but you don’t have it anymore. You’ve got a twelve­-ounce roll, and you’ve got three men that weigh over two hundred pounds apiece, a woman that’s a little plump Scotch girl, and a daughter who is thirteen, and you’re going to try to take a twelve­-ounce roll of sausage and a couple of dozen eggs and feed that? It ain’t going to work, and I’m not going to purchase your product anymore or ever again. And as far as your sixteen­-ounce maple and sage sausage? I don’t eat that. I’m not from the North. I’m a Texas man. Jimmy Dean sausage is for Southern people to eat with their break‑fast, with their fried eggs and their T‑bone steaks. And I can’t feed a twelve­-ounce package to four, five, six people. And I’m not going to buy two of those twelve­-ounce packages just because you want to downsize and charge the same [bleeping] price. I’d sure like a reply. . . .

Let’s hear it for Randy Taylor, a man with a serious sausage problem!

I'm not sure what "that brings out the id" implies in the context above?
Does it imply "that makes us tell the things about which we are usually silent"?
Or does the ohrase refer to the manner of speaking, implying "that makes us angry"?

Thank you.
Mikhail Korolev
Local time: 23:05
that makes us behave instinctively, irrationally, without thinking logically
Explanation:
Id, ego, and super-ego are the three parts of the psychic apparatus defined in Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche; they are the three theoretical constructs in terms of whose activity and interaction our mental life is described. According to this model of the psyche, the id is the set of uncoordinated instinctual trends; the super-ego plays the critical and moralizing role; and the ego is the organized, realistic part that mediates between the desires of the id and the super-ego.[1] The super-ego can stop one from doing certain things that one's id may want to do.
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Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:05
Grading comment
Thank you, Jack.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



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Jack Doughty


  

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that makes us behave instinctively, irrationally, without thinking logically


Explanation:
Id, ego, and super-ego are the three parts of the psychic apparatus defined in Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche; they are the three theoretical constructs in terms of whose activity and interaction our mental life is described. According to this model of the psyche, the id is the set of uncoordinated instinctual trends; the super-ego plays the critical and moralizing role; and the ego is the organized, realistic part that mediates between the desires of the id and the super-ego.[1] The super-ego can stop one from doing certain things that one's id may want to do.


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego_and_super-ego
Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:05
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 370
Grading comment
Thank you, Jack.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tony M
13 mins
  -> Thank you, Tony!
agree  Yasutomo Kanazawa
20 mins
  -> Thank you.
agree  Charles Davis
1 hr
  -> Thank you.
agree  Mark Nathan: Must try and develop my super-ego
2 hrs
  -> Thank you. Me too. We can but try.
agree  AllegroTrans: is Trump the manifestation of mega ego?
3 hrs
  -> Thank you. That sounds like a good way to describe him.
agree  Morad Seif
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  -> Thank you.
agree  B D Finch
8 hrs
  -> Тhank you.
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