As much as I love to argue the concept Kaze, at the end of the day I could end the discussion by saying that particular part of freud's theories lacks tangible proof that modern science requires and is therefore downright dismissed by modern day psychology. Then again European Psychology ignores the modern day scientific ruling and remains more effective and never made the mistake of over complicating/oversimplifying pre-existing conditions.
1. Psychology as a science: Only a fact is truth.
2. Psychology as a philosophy: Closest possible answer is the truth(99% rule based on modern perception)
However! I dont feel like helping lexus either so:
Lexus you are arguing like you have something to prove. Is it really so implausible that you are not in control of all your faculties? HELL YOU WOULD GO INSANE managing the day-to-day operations of your body. It's evolution in its most basic form.
If you light a cigarette, theres a certain way of doing it unique to yourself. The way you grab it from the pack, stick it in your mouth, the way you light it, the way you drag the amount, and how you grab your cigarette. All of that isnt very interesting but if you are willing to admit that every person has these kinds of little character traits that are unique to them and the repeat them with mindblowing efficiency and... do so in the exact same fashion everytime UNLESS you point it out to them.
Blinking your eyes was too basic of an example so I extended it but Blinking, breathing, walking, talking, language, useage, the way you comb your hair, the way you want to look.
If I asked you to shave your head, you wouldnt even think about it for a moment because what you are now, the state you are in is who you want to be or want to remain.
All your actions and all your movements all the way down to the way you look, breathe, walk, talk, shit, fuck its all governed by a system that copies your initial action and simply... recreates it.. you call this the subconscious i presume?
This system learns from you but is it really you? or just a program that executes your last order over and over untill new input is provided? But new input can be troublesome, less effective, less pretty, or even less productive. What about the times it IS more effective, pretty and productive? Why would you as a person not as a system fight so hard against that change without any logic just to maintain your person "truth" of what you think you are?
Heres a very real question I want you to think about, not answer not even debate here I just want you to think about it.
At what point does this system, this subconscious control your actions more than you do?
That is why freud kept theorizing that the ego has access to all your memories, feelings and actions. Not because it wants to, or even needs to but because you told it to. So you dont have to think about the bad times, so you dont have to suffer the regret, the blood, the sweat and the tears. However the system learns and keeps learning the more you learn the smarter it becomes. You tell it you dont ever want to think about the time you got raped and it will start slowly to associate more and more things to it, hiding it, linking it, making it dissappear. All because you pushed it down you wanted it gone, and the more you push, the more you lie. The more the Ego begins to surface and you begin to dissappear.
Walls in the human mind.. Roadblocks.. thats outside sources encountering the ego at work... the system you put in place to protect you however it is unbiased, it does not care, it only learns and takes orders. The more control you give it however... the less it starts to listen because it will be protecting YOU from YOURSELF.(robot revolution ftw!)
