Word: superego
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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...
kiddo," says Aunt Morgen, "you ought to see a doctor." Dr. Wright finds Elizabeth no more responsive than a waterlogged stick, until he tries hypnosis. Under hypnosis, Miss R.'s case, as the doctor calls it, becomes the plight of Goldilocks and those old Freudian bears, Superego, Ego and Id. Superego Elizabeth is a tense bundle of inhibitions clamped in the vise of social norms. Smothering within her is a sweet, outgoing girl, her potential Ego, whom the doctor nicknames Beth...
...which ethics and conscience are shunted aside and almost lost. Rarely, as an exception to the rule of animal egotism, a group of prisoners would sacrifice part of their ration to give a dying friend a last pleasure. "In those people, I think, some standards of their old superego [conscience] had remained stronger than the influences of the concentration camp," says Dr. Cohen...
...Cohen makes a distinction between SS men who committed common acts of cruelty and those who had the job of gassing Jews. "The latter," he says, "were educated to believe that jews were inferior people, guilty of Germany's defeat in the First World War. The German superego (the interaction of parents, educators, laws of the country, rules of society) accepted these ideas . . . German education taught that you have to obey every order from those above you." The SS men at the gas chambers, Dr. Cohen believes, had no emotional reaction to their gruesome task-"It was their duty...
...conflict in you [has] been working its way to the surface for a long time." This is more than poor George is given a chance to do himself, as the analyst gallops him down into the Freudian underworld and introduces him to such alarming spooks as his own ego, superego and lusty id. "Do you mean that I have three personalities, but am only conscious of one?" howls poor George...