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Sigmund Freud’s ”The Ego and the Id”

Theory & Philosophy

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The Ego and the Psychoanalysis of Unconscious Drives

Psychiatry's job is to reveal the types of forces that restrict what people can do and that they suppress in their unconscious. The ego, at least its operations, are not always graspable to us. They are unconscious themselves. And as you become aware of the forces that suppress them, you might better understand those drives and those desires.

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