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Freud Civilization And Its Dis
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Freud defines the id as being a "general mass of sensations". What he means by this is that there are, at this stage, no boundaries between external environment and oneself. The id according to Freud is the only part that is present at birth. At this stage a person doesn't understand how their a ....
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....serve, judge, and threaten the ego with punishment just like the parents whose place it has taken (as the individual grows older). We generally would refer to it as our "conscience". As it is stated in the book, "The tension between the harsh super - ego and the ego that is subjected to it ... expresses itself as a need for punishment". The super - ego therefore enhances the reality principle so that it becomes internally ingrained within us.
Freud traces all actions and instincts back to ".... |
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