What does Freud mean by "where the Id was ego shall be?", and the relationship to his theory of conscious and subconscious. Freud describes three aspects of the self, Id, Ego, and Superego. The Id is the primal and subconscious area of the self; the ego is the area of consciousness, and the means by which we are able to differentiate an actual apple from a picture of an apple, etc. The super ego is the area in which we learn and understand ethics, coulter, laws, etc.... "Where the Id was the ego shall be." Is stating that eventually we our conscious state will eventually take over a larger portion of the subconscious. The relationship between Freudian theory of Language and the language and thinking of architecture are similar. Where the Id (Primal, basic) is the ego (being a part of the conscious, and differentiation) shall be....is perhaps very similar to the development of architecture's language and thinking. Much like the development of an individual, where as, an infant is only id, that is to say where we are in our most primal state, we live through desire. Arguing that in architectural history, we can also see it's most primal state, the primitive hut, that which is the most basic part of development. One could also argue that a typology, such as a bank or church, could be recognized as the super ego. That which is molded by society, understand rules, laws, and ethics. If that is the case then, ego can be correlated with a more free form, such as the Ghery's and Hadids of our current architecture. Differentiation is not subject to rules of set archetypal ideal. They are different in every other respect, because although both require a form of process, one leads to understanding self, while the other leads to either theory or implementation of an idea, i.e. a structure. In the Genet's "The Balcony" Freudian ideas of identity within the group dynamics are such that an ...