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Psychic energy is defined as a fundamental power that directs an individual’s mental, emotional, and behavioral processes. In psychoanalytic theory, this energy is distributed in some way between conscious and unconscious processes and plays a critical role in the individual’s psychological functioning. Sigmund Freud viewed psychic energy as the primary source of human behavior and argued that it is especially guided by instincts. According to him, the amount of psychic energy an individual poss