That's actually very interesting, don't know how that would work though.HT_Black said:My superego was purged from my being by six generations of careful selective breeding. Instead, I have two seperate personas which I involuntarily adopt at day and night, respectively. They are as different as black and white; but curiously, each of them imagines the other as their ideal state of being.
Damn! Beat me to it!Queen Michael said:One word: Batman.
I think that word doesn't mean what you think it meansZyst said:So, what is your superego?
I'm Batman.MadCapMunchkin said:Damn! Beat me to it!Queen Michael said:One word: Batman.
In that case, Sherlock Holmes.
Yes, but Batman doesn't have an awesome hat...Spy Killer said:I'm Batman.MadCapMunchkin said:Damn! Beat me to it!Queen Michael said:One word: Batman.
In that case, Sherlock Holmes.
[...] Freud himself wrote of "das Es," "das Ich," and "das Über-Ich"?respectively, "the It," "the I," and the "Over-I" (or "Upper-I"); thus to the German reader. [...]The_root_of_all_evil said:I think that word doesn't mean what you think it meansZyst said:So, what is your superego?
superego(noun): The part of the mind that acts as a self-critical conscience, reflecting social standards that have been learned.
You're probably meaning Übermensch or similar.
Freud was a cocaine junkie though, which makes you paranoid and impotent, so I'm gonna go with the idea you were looking at the physical alter-ego, rather than the mental super-ego.Zyst said:[...] Freud himself wrote of "das Es," "das Ich," and "das Über-Ich"?respectively, "the It," "the I," and the "Over-I" (or "Upper-I"); thus to the German reader. [...]
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego,_and_super-ego