Re: The decider is the ego
The ego controls anxiety for the creature by limiting experience and it limits experience by skew perceptions and by such stratagems as finding a science to be negative even though there is little of no knowledge of that science. Early in an infants life the infant learns that to receive approval the infant must limit its natural inclination to explore its body and abide by the symbolic world of the mother. The infant quickly develops strategies of self-delusion.
The ego stands between the instincts of the id and it also stands between the creature and its own ego ideal when such might develop into anxiety.
I think that anti-intellectualism that so permeates life in the United States is a good example of the ego’s effort to limit the experience of the creature.
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