inventing psychotherapeutic vocabulary

Freud invented a vocabulary to describe the behaviors he observed in his work, he didn’t discover “ego” and “id” - he invented them for the use of the generations of psychoterapists .. More recently supplanted by other vocabularies including psychotropic drugs and taken their place in everyday usage, where excessive neatness is routinely characterised as “anal”, and an inflated ego is considered a problem as a sore throat. The development and testing of new vocabularies is always the way through which the thinking advances.