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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.
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- explanation: Freud
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- 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.
- Freud conceptualised our basic nature as
- 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.
- a sort of internal outgrowth, responsible for
- Freud saw the role of the other as largely limited to
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