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146. Sigmund Freud and the Dynamic Unconscious

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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You're an Observer in the Dream

The ego is the thing that's being pushed back and forth by those contradictory drives. You can be like with people who have obscessive compulsive disorder, which seems to be one of the dissolutive elements of the unconscious. The less integrated you are, the less you're in control of them, and the more they're in control of you. And so it's sort of within nature that these contradictory drives emerge.

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