June 12, 2019

PHILOSOPHERS' STONE.PART 142

of sexual drive is one sample.In describing the human mind,he drives home his concept of pleasure principle or id being regulated in relation to reality principle.We grew up with moral burden concerning repression of desire.Sometimes,harsh parental judgements that once declared us naughty could have a lasting impression on later years.When we are grown up,it still reechoes and the expectation of such moral burden or demand.This part of us Freud called Superego and is a component part of the human conscience.It tells us when our desires are good or bad,proper or improper.He said,improper desires especially such as eroticism started at childhood and any chastisement turns to a later guilt and a child grew up with the guilt feeling of such sexual desire.Since this guilt feelings remain in the superego,people feel guilty all their lives.They battled lifelong conflict between guilt and crave.Freud's patients suffered this challenge and such acute affliction led them to develop a condition he called neurosis.

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