• FerretyFever0@fedia.io
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    Nah, the id/ego/superego thing was made up by Freud. Freud was a late 19th century crackhead who thought that everyone was in love with one of their parents. We do not listen to Freud. We do not trust Freud.

    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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      It can still be a useful model for understanding how we behave, sometimes.

      He may have been a coke fiend with some wonky ideas, but sometimes, some of them can still be useful.

      If nothing else, the idea of how ego plays a part here makes sense, and how we probably think of the car as an extension of our body.