29-08-2024, 07:13 PM
Freud didn't steal directly from Plato.
The idea of a tripartite soul is everywhere in Western thought. Nonetheless every thinker that touched on it had an original take on the boundaries of each part, the way they interact, etc...Freud just gave us the most recent articulation of it couched in the language of fin de siecle psychology. It's like saying every philosopher stole the idea of metaphysics altogether, the idea of thinking about the structure of the world outside the human, from Heraclitus.
In any case, are you meaning to suggest that logic = superego, emotion = ego, and desire = id? Or emotion = id and desire = ego? Freud nor Lacan would say that emotion is cleanly within any of these things, let alone assign discrete individual emotions to each part of the soul as is suggested in this chart. Emotions aren't just pure bodily responses, they are shot through with language, culture, and identifications. There are ways the superego, ego, id can display pride, courage, moderation, or what have you. Psychodynamics are not nearly as schematic and predictable as this chart passes off.
The idea of a tripartite soul is everywhere in Western thought. Nonetheless every thinker that touched on it had an original take on the boundaries of each part, the way they interact, etc...Freud just gave us the most recent articulation of it couched in the language of fin de siecle psychology. It's like saying every philosopher stole the idea of metaphysics altogether, the idea of thinking about the structure of the world outside the human, from Heraclitus.
In any case, are you meaning to suggest that logic = superego, emotion = ego, and desire = id? Or emotion = id and desire = ego? Freud nor Lacan would say that emotion is cleanly within any of these things, let alone assign discrete individual emotions to each part of the soul as is suggested in this chart. Emotions aren't just pure bodily responses, they are shot through with language, culture, and identifications. There are ways the superego, ego, id can display pride, courage, moderation, or what have you. Psychodynamics are not nearly as schematic and predictable as this chart passes off.
