
Civilization and Its Discontents
Why Theory
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What Is Superigo?
There's a line, how do I have it or do you have it? Because we talked about it before, and where it brings kind of everything together. So yeah, you're, what you're describing is exactly the case in the German. And so it's always positive. It's always like an object that we desire and get enjoyment from,. etc. The authority turns into a Superigo and enters into possession of all the aggressiveness which a child could have liked to exercise against it. He finds his way out of this economically difficult situation with the help of familiar mechanisms. By means of identification, he takes the unattackable authority into himself.
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