factors in varying combinations" (140).
The power of culture and the psychological and sociological baggage that it carries are acknowledged influences on psychology, perception, ego involvement. This is articulated by Freud as experience of ambivalence and self-alienation in the tension between mind and body, for Freud the tension between ego and superego or internal and external experience.
[T]here is nothing of which we are more certain than the feeling of our self, of our own ego. This ego appears to us as something autonomous and unitary, marked off dist
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