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The Super Ego and Debt

I think this is interesting to go to super ego as the, as sort of the answer. Because what smooths out the contradictions so that like they don't even appear. So it's a nice contrast between trying to make allowances for one's unconscious desire versus the super egoic imperative of trying to just absolutely smooth out all operations. But when you're indebted to the super ego, you are constantly trying to smooth out things, but you're always failing. You can never grasp it as such because you're so invested in trying to smooth things out with this super egoic dimension. This idea of debt and super ego, I think it's absolutely tied together, which is why we live in

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