Freud’s Unconscious

“Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from itself the external world. The ego-feeling we are aware of now is thus only a shrunken vestige of a far more extensive feeling - a feeling which embraced the universe and expressed an inseparable connection of the ego with the external world,” wrote Sigmund Freud in “Civilization and Its Discontents”. The Ego, the Id and the Superego together make up the human psyche, and their dynamic determinism how the individual self relates to the world. In this episode we talk around an idea that changed the very understanding of ourselves.