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We base ourselves on common knowledge and recoginze in man an organization of the soul which is interpolated between the stimulation of his senses and the perception of his bodily needs on the one hand, and his motor acts on the other, and which mediates between them for a particular purpose. We call this organization his I but we dont believe that by recognizing this part of the soul we have exhausted his description. Besides the I we recognize another region of the soul more extensive, grndeur, and more obscure the I and we call the the It.

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-- diane kiss (kissd@genesis.com), September 05, 2003

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Hint: change "I" to "ego" and "It" to "id."

(Freud did not use the Latin terms that have become standard in English tranlations of his work. He used the ordinary German equivalents.)

-- Christopher Green (christo@yorku.ca), September 05, 2003.


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