diff --git a/New-Introductory-Lectures-On-Psycho-Analysis.md b/New-Introductory-Lectures-On-Psycho-Analysis.md index 06726eb..892626d 100644 --- a/New-Introductory-Lectures-On-Psycho-Analysis.md +++ b/New-Introductory-Lectures-On-Psycho-Analysis.md @@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ You will observe how the super-ego goes down into the id; as the heir to the Oed And now, in concluding this certainly rather exhausting and perhaps not very illuminating account, I must add a warning. When you think of this dividing up of the personality into ego, super-ego and id, you must not imagine sharp dividing lines such as are artificially drawn in the field of political geography. We cannot do justice to the characteristics of the mind by means of linear contours, such as occur in a drawing or in a primitive painting, but we need rather the areas of colour shading off into one another that are to be found in modern pictures. After we have made our separations, we must allow what we have separated to merge again. Do not judge too harshly of a first attempt at picturing a thing so elusive as the human mind. It is very probable that the extent of these differentiations varies very greatly from person to person; it is possible that their function itself may vary, and that they may at times undergo a process of involution. This seems to be particularly true of the most insecure and, from the phylogenetic point of view, the most recent of them, the differentiation between the ego and the super-ego. -![](figure-1.png) +![](figures/figure-1.png) It is also incontestable that the same thing can come about as a result of mental disease. It can easily be imagined, too, that certain practices of mystics may succeed in upsetting the normal relations between the different regions of the mind, so that, for example, the perceptual system becomes able to grasp relations in the deeper layers of the ego and in the id which would otherwise be inaccessible to it. Whether such a procedure can put one in possession of ultimate truths, from which all good will flow, may be safely doubted. All the same, we must admit that the therapeutic efforts of psycho-analysis have chosen much the same method of approach. For their object is to strengthen the ego, to make it more independent of the super-ego, to widen its field of vision, and so to extend its organisation that it can take over new portions of the id. Where id was, there shall ego be. diff --git a/output.txt b/New-Introductory-Lectures-On-Psycho-Analysis.txt similarity index 100% rename from output.txt rename to New-Introductory-Lectures-On-Psycho-Analysis.txt diff --git a/figure-1.png b/figures/figure-1.png similarity index 100% rename from figure-1.png rename to figures/figure-1.png diff --git a/LinLibertine_R.woff b/fonts/LinLibertine_R.woff similarity index 100% rename from LinLibertine_R.woff rename to fonts/LinLibertine_R.woff diff --git a/LinLibertine_RB.woff b/fonts/LinLibertine_RB.woff similarity index 100% rename from LinLibertine_RB.woff rename to fonts/LinLibertine_RB.woff diff --git a/LinLibertine_RBI.woff b/fonts/LinLibertine_RBI.woff similarity index 100% rename from LinLibertine_RBI.woff rename to fonts/LinLibertine_RBI.woff diff --git a/LinLibertine_RI.woff b/fonts/LinLibertine_RI.woff similarity index 100% rename from LinLibertine_RI.woff rename to fonts/LinLibertine_RI.woff diff --git a/index.html b/index.html index b40fc79..4bb1481 100644 --- a/index.html +++ b/index.html @@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ span.underline{text-decoration: underline;} div.column{display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; width: 50%;} - + +
I have represented the structural relations within the mental personality, as I have explained them to you, in a simple diagram, which I here reproduce.
You will observe how the super-ego goes down into the id; as the heir to the Oedipus complex it has, after all, intimate connections with the id. It lies further from the perceptual system than the ego. The id only deals with the external world through the medium of the ego, at least in this diagram. It is certainly still too early to say how far the drawing is correct; in one respect I know it is not. The space taken up by the unconscious id ought to be incomparably greater than that given to the ego or to the preconscious. You must, if you please, correct that in your imagination.
And now, in concluding this certainly rather exhausting and perhaps not very illuminating account, I must add a warning. When you think of this dividing up of the personality into ego, super-ego and id, you must not imagine sharp dividing lines such as are artificially drawn in the field of political geography. We cannot do justice to the characteristics of the mind by means of linear contours, such as occur in a drawing or in a primitive painting, but we need rather the areas of colour shading off into one another that are to be found in modern pictures. After we have made our separations, we must allow what we have separated to merge again. Do not judge too harshly of a first attempt at picturing a thing so elusive as the human mind. It is very probable that the extent of these differentiations varies very greatly from person to person; it is possible that their function itself may vary, and that they may at times undergo a process of involution. This seems to be particularly true of the most insecure and, from the phylogenetic point of view, the most recent of them, the differentiation between the ego and the super-ego.
- +It is also incontestable that the same thing can come about as a result of mental disease. It can easily be imagined, too, that certain practices of mystics may succeed in upsetting the normal relations between the different regions of the mind, so that, for example, the perceptual system becomes able to grasp relations in the deeper layers of the ego and in the id which would otherwise be inaccessible to it. Whether such a procedure can put one in possession of ultimate truths, from which all good will flow, may be safely doubted. All the same, we must admit that the therapeutic efforts of psycho-analysis have chosen much the same method of approach. For their object is to strengthen the ego, to make it more independent of the super-ego, to widen its field of vision, and so to extend its organisation that it can take over new portions of the id. Where id was, there shall ego be.
It is reclamation work, like the draining of the Zuyder Zee.