The ego, as i understand just from this text, is the thing that is that divides you from the external world. It's the boundary that gets put between you and everything else. Frod actually believed that one of the things that happens in this stage is that young boys realize that they can never defeat their father,. They just give in, and they incorporate their father into their own self. So that's the super ego.
David and Tamler dive into Sigmund Freud’s world of unconscious drives, death instincts, and thwarted incestuous urges in his classic text “Civilization and its Discontents.” If society has made so much progress, why are human beings perpetually dissatisfied? Can religion help us or is it a big part of the problem? What’s really going on when you piss on a fire to put it out? Also: how seriously should we take Freud today given some of his wackier ideas? And is he a psychologist, a philosopher, or something else entirely?
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