That such an appearance is deceptive, and that on the contrary the ego is continued inwards, without any sharp delimitation, into an unconscious mental entity which we designate as the id and for which it serves as a kind of façade-this was a discovery first made by psychoanalytic research, which should still have much more to tell us about the relation of the ego to the id. This ego appears to us as something autonomous and unitary, marked off distinctly from everything else. Normally, there is nothing of which we are more certain than the feeling of our self, of our own ego. The following line of thought suggests itself. one is justified in attempting to discover a psychoanalytic-that is, a genetic explanation of such a feeling. letter to LAS: Even the assurance most clearly expressed in Grabbe's Hannibal that "we shall not fall out of this world" doesn't seem sufficient substitute for the surrender of the boundaries of the ego, which can be painful enough.) refers to a line from Hannibal by C D Grabbe. Pages numbers in these notes give SE before Penguin if only one: SE, unless 'P' for Penguin is added.Ħ4-73 Text in the standard edition runs 64-145 (82pp.), editor's introduction 59-63 in the Penguin edition text is 251-340 (90pp.) Penguin Freud Library volume 12: 243-340. from Das Unbehagen in der Kultur, GW 14: 421. > Freud Resources > 1930a Civilization and its Discontentsįreud, Sigmund 1930a, Civilization and its Discontents, SE 21: 59-145, trs.
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