Word: superego
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Having incorporated the basic tenets of Freudian theory as it existed in 1923 into his private mystical world view, Groddeck provided a springboard from which Freud was later able to add the important model of dynamic conflict among the Id, Ego, and Superego to his previous topographical (unconscious-preconscious-conscious) model...
...therefore, not surprising that the Oedipus complex explains Freud better than it does Oedipus. Psychoanalysis is a kind of battle map of the psyche in which Id, Superego and Ego are engaged in an endless civil war. That war was Sigmund Freud. He himself said, "I stand for an infinitely freer sexual life, although I myself have made very little use of such freedom." He wanted to be a lawgiver, but he became a mythmaker. He wanted to be a scientist, but he was more nearly an artist-a type that he described as "a being of a special kind...
Ancient man had a psyche, by which he meant a soul. Modern man has a psyche, by which he is apt to mean a cumbersome machine full of id and superego, conscious and unconscious, with optional accessories such as Oedipal feedbacks. In place of the soul he has put psychology. In The Death and Rebirth of Psychology, published last week (Julian Press; $4), Dr. Ira Progoff suggests that with recent modifications psychology can now give man back his soul...
...fact that he saw man almost entirely as a material being controlled by biological urges. Thus man's spiritual search for the "core of his being"-which is essential in every religion and almost every philosophy of life-was reduced by Freud to a matter of the "superego accepting the ego." This, to Progoff, means that Freud was guilty of intellectualizing and mechanizing "a basic cosmic experience...
...admit those tendencies in himself which demand belief at this price. Under the influence of the academic he maintains that dishonesty is too much to pay for a credo and before abandoning his scruples about such self-deception he allows separation in time and space to remove his institutional superego...