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The basic tenets of psychoanalysis include the following first human behavior experience and cognition are largely determined by irrational drives those drives are largely unconscious attempts to bring those drives into awareness meet psychological resistance in the form of defense mechanisms. Psychoanalysis has also left its mark on literature both by inspiring works of fiction that incorporate aspects of psychoanalysis and or psychoanalytic theory and by serving as the basis for psychoanalytic literary criticism in which literature is critiqued through the lens of psychoanalytic theory. The main principles on which the psychoanalytic theory is based are the id ego and super ego which were freuds standing the unconscious was divided into the ego the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious these were according to jung. Freud discussed this model in the 1920 essay beyond the pleasure principle and elaborated upon it in the the ego and the id 1923 the id according to freud the id is the completely unconscious impulsive and demanding part of the psyche that as a child allows us to get our basic needs met this part of the psyche operates on