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133. Maps of Meaning 5: Story and Metastory 1

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Freud's Idea of the Properly Working Ego

Freud's idea of the properly functioning ego is something like that too. Because the id is this place of compulsion and and drive, and the ego has to basically suppress that in the service of the super ego. There's no idea of integration really in freud. But if you start thinking about the brain, the nervous system, as part of the body, as an inseparable part, then then the function of thinking starts to become something different. And i think that's what you're more interested in anyways. I don't see how you can't be. Since you're a living thing and you're overwhelmingly motivated to successfully manifest those actions that a living has to manifest in order to continue...

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