The Unconscious
Overthink
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The Role of the Censor
Sar really develops the critique of freud on freud's own terms. Even if you disagree with the existentialists that the self is not a thing, sart's going to give you an argument for why you shouldn't take freud to be offering a real solution to the paradox of self deception. He says that by splitting up the conscious and the unconscious and setting up a censor in the middle, he ends up just placing the problem on a different level. And so i can see it being this floating or moving target in freud's system that ultimately end sup taking the role of the self.
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