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Freud & Beyond 01: Defense Mechanisms & The Oedipus Complex

Psychoanalytic Thinking with Dr Don Carveth

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Freud's Preedible Lair

Froyd was aware of two ans r two levels, i should say, of the unconscious. This would be the triangular lair, which he likened to the greeko roman civilization. But if you dig down, there's a whole other city down below that, which reflects not the triad, but the diad. The diad the mother child duality. And that's what neurosis is. At least my ability too be mixed up that way is is a function of the degree to which i've overcome splitting and achieved ambibolence. So we have these very different levelsf of mental functioning. Psychosis, border line neurosis, higher level defences, intellectual

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