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Old 04.06.2007, 11:07 AM   #60
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But would an evolution be considered a tendency toward the id, or the supergo? Even that's debatable. But that's a tangent.

And to floatingslowly, aren't all of our seemingly unrelated fears extensions of a fear of death, insofar as logical fear is born of the assumption of an undesired consequence (the most extreme and inevitable being death)?

Just askin' for discussion purposes. I'm undecided on that myself, as most common fears are illogically based.

I think that yeah, a more highly evolved mind would contain more conscious elements of both. The labels are debatable though, as you mention. I'm more of a Jungian than a Freudian, personally.
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