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- The ego is a person's "self" composed of unconscious desires. The ego takes into account ethical and cultural ideals in order to balance out the desires originating in the id. Although both the id and the ego are unconscious, the ego has close contact with the perceptual system.
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Freud’s view of the self was multitiered, divided among the conscious, preconscious, and unconscious. He explains his psychological model in the following passage from his An Outline of Psychoanalysis .
The philosophy of self examines the idea of the self at a conceptual level. Many different ideas on what constitutes self have been proposed, including the self being an activity, the self being independent of the senses, the bundle theory of the self, the self as a narrative center of gravity, and the self as a linguistic or social construct ...
With great originality and boldness, Freud put forth quite heterogenous theories of the mind's components, and of how their operations result in various types of normal as well as disturbed behaviour.
- Irving Thalberg
- 1982
Concepts of “the self” in psychoanalytic theory have important philosophic underpinnings which may not be adequately appreciated. Both self psychology and ego psychology, with their contrasting pos...
- General View on Self
- Problems with Freud’s View
- Implications of Freud’s View of Self For The Trans Derived Questions
- Contrast Case 6—Hallucination and Delusions
Freud (1923, SE 19, p. 26), in a work that is titled (in English) The Ego and the Id, famously characterizes the ego (“das Ich” translated as the “I” or the “self”) as “…first and foremost a bodily ego.” Filling out the role of the ego, and in a fashion agreed upon by modern psychoanalytic theorists, Freud describes the ego operating essentially as...
Freud’s account of the Self, at least to the extent “the ego” is equated with the Self, is flawed in a way that can be usefully compared with the difficulties for the Humean Self discussed earlier. Given particularly his eliminativist-Self view, Hume should be asked these three questions: (1) Who is it, if not some overarching Self, that bundles th...
Can the original or even the revised Freudian notions of Self answer, address, or even accommodate the foundational questions occasioned by the Trans-gender phenomenon and Trans-gendered selves? Consider the Freudian dictum that “the ego is first and foremost a body ego.” For Trans persons, there seems nothing unusual here as the dictum is lived in...
Following our discussion of Freud—whose views on Self, while not without difficulties, revolutionized psychiatry—it seems apt to next consider the psychiatric symptoms of hallucinations and delusions as constituting Contrast Case 6. The contents of hallucinations and delusions are often experienced as alien to the Self. Yet, no matter how external ...
- Linda A. W. Brakel
- brakel@med.umich.edu
- 2020
Nov 21, 2018 · Freud’s philosophical argument for the existence of unconscious mental states, excavated and reconstructed in this book, is proposed as a “missing link” that provides a possible rationale for the transformations of psychology and philosophy of mind.
Jan 1, 2020 · Freud, Self-Knowledge and Psychoanalysis. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2020. Béla Szabados. Article. Metrics. Get access Rights & Permissions. Extract. I put down my cup and examine my own mind. It is for it to discover the truth. But how?
