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  1. Sep 2023
    1. While oversimplified, the core image of mind here is as a sort of internal outgrowth, responsible for cognitively traversing the subject-object gap and, as it were, acting as intermediator between two distinct domains.
      • for: explanation - Freud
      • explanation: Freud
      • paraphrase
        • Freud conceptualised our basic nature as
          • self-contained bundles of energy, born into a sort of introverted narcissism (the Id).
          • The development of the mind (the Ego) was a result of
            • the clash between the outward expressions of this energy (the drives) and
            • the world’s responses to them.
      • Psychological development was therefore a self-creative act, - shaped by the external world only in terms of necessary adaptation.
        • Freud saw the role of the other as largely limited to
          • external arbiter and enforcer of rules and regulations for behaviour.
        • While oversimplified, the core image of mind here is as
          • a sort of internal outgrowth, responsible for
            • cognitively traversing the subject-object gap and
            • acting as intermediator between two distinct domains.