Sublime

For Freud, the self is – rather than a soul with an eternal nature – a complex amalgam of biological and social impulses, many of them quite ‘Darwinian’ in their primal mechanisms, and the conscious mind is only the surface of the ‘unconscious’, where hidden, largely irrational impulses, repressed desires,

At the heart of mental illness is a loss of control over our own better thoughts and feelings.

Their own experience of their own nature might have contributed something to this idea of a self within but somehow independent of the body.

The id does not care about facts or evidence. The id's favourite literature is 'fake news'.

Names are a symptom of a species which values the individual self above the collective good.’

human belief systems are good at absorbing contradictions into their thinking.