it only seeks to pleasure the myriad cathexes in its instinctual, animal-like impulse reservoir.
The ego represents the scales-of-wholeness in the sense that its function is to monitor the id and reality in such a fashion as to protect the individual from harm based on the instinctual, irrational nature of the id. It attempts to unify the id and the super-ego into a whole that is reality-based without completely sacrificing individual identity. This is important because the nature of the id, if we are talking about the continuum of a pendulum, is completely at one extreme of the pendulum swing. Were it not for the affects of the ego upon the id’s completely instinctual nature we would surely self-destruct, “The ego has taken over the task of representing the world for the id, and so of saving it; for the id blindly striving to gratify its instincts in complete disregard of the superior strength of outside forces, could no
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