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how does ego & id connect to BtPP?

sex drive seems to be all-present; death drive absent. this leads to misunderstanding

guided by pleas. principle (i.e. awareness of unpleasure) id defends itself against tensions arising from the sexdrive by:
- meeting the demands of the libido asap to give gratification (separating soma&germ in sex act = death
- let the ego subliminate parts of the libido for its own purposes

III
seperate level within ego: super-ego, origin: Oedipus-complex

1 process of converting object-choice (1 parent) into ego-alteration, Oedipus-complex leaves imprint on ego

2. 2 identifications (p&m), harmonized with one another
3. same time: reaction-formation against objects of identification (p&m) (em. ambivalence!)

4. 2+3= ego-alteration, which opposes rest of ego as super-ego

5. phylogenesis (social feel.)

II
Pcpt-Cs is gateway to Pcs (i.e. all internal & external stimuli have to be perceived, enter pre-conscious, and then constitute the Ego)

To be perceived, stimuli need to be remembered (word notions)
- all knowledge comes from without
- thoughts are perceived as originating outside

The Id is leftover Ucs, including repressed ideas

ego = projection of a surface (!) (e.g. self-criticism + guilt in Ucs -> neurosis)

I
descriptive distinction conscious/unconscious falls short (after psychoanal. inv.)

dynamic theory of psyche: unconscious to be further divided
- part of ego is non-repressed unconscious
- latent unconscious is preconscious (able to become conscious by activation)
- repressed ideas are unconscious (forced to be unconscious)

hence: unconscious loses some of its significance (multivalent quality)