The Pnictogen Wing's resident scientist, Alyx Woodward (q.v. @pnictogen-horses), wrote a piece earlier today about chemist Sidney Fox. In the process of researching that, she found a curious document, written by Sidney Fox's son Ron Fox, who became a theoretical physicist.
And it would seem that Dr. Sidney Fox, perhaps prompted by his own name, thought that he could somehow isolate the id, Freud's conjectured entity that roughly corresponds to raw subconscious will:
Since [Dr. Sidney Fox] believed he had solved the problem of the origin of life on the early Earth, he was into other projects. The concept he found most profound and which received more of his time than others was the idea of the id. Sid wanted to extract his id before he died. Sort of like Sid → id . He believed it was an entity he might be able to isolate. I would object jocularly, Id est the id is just a manifestation of the living brain, and “dies” with the brain.
It amuses me that Dr. Alphys, from Undertale, had at least one approximate human counterpart. I don't know if one can exactly line up Freud's id with the concept of "Determination" in the Undertale sense, but it's in the ballpark, surely.
~Chara
