Word: egos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Contradiction. At 19 Berggasse in Vienna Freud plodded on to refine his theories. Having divided the mind into Conscious and Unconscious, he now divided it again into Id, Ego and Superego...
...psyche is divided horizontally into conscious and unconscious, vertically into id, ego and superego. Gradually the child's unconscious fills more or less deliberately with things forgotten (suppressed] because they are unpleasant, and, more importantly, with emotions and drives which are too painful ever to be tolerated in consciousness (repressed...
...entirely unconscious, most primitive part of the mind, is concerned only with gratification of drives. The ego, almost entirely conscious, develops from experience and reason, deals with perception of the environment, tries to go about governing id. Superego, largely unconscious, sits as judge, decides whether or not ego may permit id the gratification it seeks; it is conscience, made up of attitudes absorbed unwittingly in childhood and (to a much less extent) of attitudes consciously learned or adopted later...
Neurosis, to Freud, results from unsuccessful attempt by the personality to achieve harmony among id, ego and superego, and this failure in turn results from arrest of development at an immature stage. Commonest cause of emotional disharmony: failure to resolve Oedipal feelings. Example: many girls who profess to seek marriage actually avoid it because the prospect activates the threat of unacceptable emotions which are fixated to their fathers...
...aroused by her sophisticated neighbor. When her son acquires an attractive young tutor, she half tumbles, half pushes herself into love. Discovering that her young ward is also drawn to the tutor, Natalia jealously tries to marry her off elsewhere. Though all this gives the heartfree tutor's ego a great lift, matters get fairly strenuous for him, and he finds it simplest to go away. Others go away too, for other reasons, leaving Natalia behind with a mild case of heart break, a lady's-sized frustration...