IRC-Galleria

I have been asked numerous times “how do I get more power for myself?” The answer is simple. The process is difficult. The difficulties lie in repetition & tolerating the restructuring anxiety, along with real world threats from other monkeys. So here is the secret: “Power” as metaphor is divided unequally between what Freud called the id, ego and superego. Keep in mind that Freud’s labels are simply labels and do not exist in reality but only point to complex structures and processes.

In most people the contaminated id (masochism, self-damaging desires) is controlled primarily by the superego (inculcated authority/cop). Hence, power is expended in impulse and the counter impulse battle. How much power? I would guess the average person expends more than 75% of their total energies in the struggle between impulsive desire (id), and the self-flagellating response to the desire (superego). Ego functions, i.e. rational and social functions, represent about 25%.

This hypothetical model requires reversal. What does this mean? The superego (whose very existence depends on social and native processes) must be defused and its energy given to the ego. This contradicts FreudÂ’s dictate, that in the healthy person the id impulses will be replaced by the ego. Instead the superego will be replaced by the ego and the contaminated id transformed back to the primal id.

The contaminated id must also be defused and the energy given to the ego. This is the purpose and meaning of Undoing.

In practice, defusing the superego alone is not sufficient as the contaminated id will begin to run wild and get the person into practical trouble with the external superego (the “authorities”).

Thus, the contaminated id must be defused at the same time. One problem is that most monkeys cannot separate practical self- control from superego self-control, due to conditioning at an early age to (external) authority. This process is existential, in that the helpless infant deifies the adult caretaker regardless of the caretakerÂ’s qualities. Thus, the infantile processes of deifying the caretaker/authority suffer from an absence of objective evaluation and discrimination. Finally, the original superego is further built upon by other adults, media and social pressure, continuing the innate deifying process to the grave.

-- Dr. CS Hyatt

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"Are designed to decieve,
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