But I mean to make clear the fact that those recesses of the unconscious in which neurotic and psychotic derangement have their center belong in reality to man’s exterior self: because the exterior self is not limited to consciousness. Freud’s concept of the superego as an infantile and introjected substitute for conscience fits very well my idea of the exterior and alienated self. It is at once completely exterior and yet at the same time buried in unconsciousness. So too with the Freudian concept of the “id,” insofar as it represents an automatic complex of drives toward pleasure or
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