Id superego ego2/18/2023 Carl Jung had a soft spot for the Id, though he wasn’t prepared to use Freud’s terminology. We find out what we get when Id and Super Ego are left to duke it out without the mediating influence of Ego. Maybe dispensing with the mediator (whose fees are very reasonable) is not such a great idea. Why not dispense with the mediator altogether? Eliminate Ego, and let Super Ego and Id negotiate on the phone. If Super Ego wins, we get sitting in one place with a beatific smile, gazing on vacancy. If Id wins, we get a Frankenstein monster. Id, though a source of fascination, seems little better than a thug. Super Ego may be the source of peace, justice and the American way, yet as a standalone seems just too prissy. One might think it is no contest, yet Super Ego is quite persistent and has some tricks up its sleeve – it specializes in shame, blame and regret.Īnd who is the lucky mediator? Apparently it is Ego, pig in the middle and so-called ‘timid accountant,’ for who believes Ego is truly strong enough to mediate between the powerful energies of Eros and Thanatos? Id is slugs and snails and puppy dogs’ tails, hedonistic, narcissistic and addicted to zero-sum games. Super Ego is sugar and spice and all things nice, the voice of conscience, cooperation and getting everyone’s needs satisfied. Presumably by court order, these two brought in a mediator, and it seems this is one of those mediations that last a lifetime but for the court-mandated lifetime pro bono policy, the fees would be enormous. Eros chose Super Ego and Thanatos retained Id. It seems these opposing parties retained counsel to represent them. That is how one wit described Sigmund Freud’s analysis of the human psyche into the life instinct, Eros, and the death instinct, Thanatos. ‘A struggle in a locked, dark basement, between a homicidal sex crazed monkey and a puritanical old maid being mediated by a timid accountant.’
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