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.

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[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 5 points 1 year ago

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.

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