hand, if the systems are fighting with each other, one is said to be maladjusted and dissatisfied with himself and with the world. The function of the id is to provide for the immediate discharge of quantities of excitation, including energy or tension, that are released in the person by internal or external stimulation. The earliest form of the id is a reflex system that releases immediately by motor pathways any sensory excitations reaching it.
             ...when a very bright light falls upon the retina of the eye, the eyelid closes
             and light is prevented from reaching the retina. Consequently, the
             excitations that were produced in the nervous system by the light quiet
             down and the organism returns to a quiescent state.
             If all the tensions that occur in an organism could be alleviated by reflexes, then any psychological development beyond that of the simple reflex would be unnecessary and not needed. However, this is definitely not the case; an example is when hunger contractions appear in the stomach of a baby, the contractions do not produce food. Actually, they produce crying and restlessness, which indicates to one that the baby must be fed or over time, the baby would die from starvatio
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