DGB Quantum NP: Some Preliminary QED Thoughts On Id, Ego, Superego, and 'Object Ego' Distinction

Finished!

Nov. 22nd, 2018,

Good day!

Call this a preliminary work as I will write to you as I am working through various ideas on QNP Personality, and Personality Development, Theory, as well as many different symptom and psychiatric diagnostic types including phobia, paranoia, paranoid-schizoid and paranoid-confrontational and aggressive types. You won't find any of these diagnostic categories in any DSM and they are uniquely DGB-QNP categories that step outside of 'orthodox Classical' categories while modifying the concepts of id, ego, and superego and re-organizing the subject of personality development, personality and ego-state types, and psychiatric diagnostic types. I would like to think that there is 'method to my madness' if you will -- or 'clinical reason and functionality' behind my 'neo-Freudian unorthodoxy'.

Firstly, I would like to give 'the id' four different 'parameters of definition' as follows:

1. Must follow the 'primary process' which means the pleasure-unpleasure principle -- focusing on immediate pleasure and avoiding immediate unpleasure;
2. And/or must follow the 'primal principle' which means the 'law of creative and/or destructive visual/picture symbolism such as in a dream and/or nightmare;
3. And/or must follow the principle of a 'hypnoid moment' (Breuer, Freud, 1895, Studies on Hysteria ) which can also be defined as a moment of 'subjective-id-ego-trauma' (a 'high moment of unpleasure) and/or a moment of 'high narcissistic pleasure';
4. A special note here as Freud ended up rejecting Breuer's concept of hypnoid moments as they didn't seem to have any bearing on the psychology of defense nor did they seem to have any relevance to hysteria and/or neurosis in any fashion whatsoever; in contrast, I view the type of moment or 'state of auto-hypnosis' that Breuer was writing about as happening before the process of defense'.
5. In this sense, both the id and the ego -- or rather, the id-ego in tandem with each other are 'splitting in the process of defense' -- thus, and many theorists will disagree with me on this next part -- perhaps I am being too technical here: according to Freud in 1938 ('Splitting of The Ego in The Process of Defense'; and 'Outline of Psychoanalysis'; the id and ego are undifferentiated in early childhood which means that any 'split' at this point in psychological development would involve an 'undifferentiated id-ego-split' and 'ego splits' respectively as part of the early childhood 'id-ego splits'; and thus, the adult ego-splits that we refer to can be viewed as manifestations of these early childhood 'id-ego splits'; also, less common but still possible, some adult ego splits could take place as well as adult narcissistic pleasure fixations that may be different than the childhood id-ego splits and/or pleasure fixations;
6. Different than childhood ego-id traumas or ego-id pleasure fixations, we can also identify a set of underlying 'basic needs' that precede the ego-id traumas and/or fixations; firstly, in line with Freud, we have already decided that the pleasure-unpleasure principle belongs to the id so we can call this a 'Basic Need 1'; secondly, and this is new, we will view 'self-assertion' as 'Basic Need 2'; and thirdly, we can view 'attachment' as 'Basic Need 3' -- this becomes a 'bridge' between QED Oedipal Period Neo-Psychoanalytic Object Relations and Pre-Oedipal Object Relations Psychoanalysis'; this turn 'Object Relations into a form of 'Impulse-Drive Psychoanalysis which is an updated version of 'Classical' Psychoanalysis;
7. What is not 'id behavior' is any brand of organized and/or pre-meditated ego behavior that is designed to satisfy and/or protect an underlying 'basic id need'; the basic instinct itself belongs to the id whereas the organized, planned ego behavior that is designed to satisfy and/or protect the underlying basic need is 'ego behavior;
8. The ego can be defined by the following characteristics in similar fashion to Freud; Reality-bound; better frustration tolerance; better impulse-drive control;
9. More organized, better planning, operating according to the secondary process (reality principle); More rationally motivated and understandable; more logical; less irrational; thinking volves understandable coherence and order of language; in contrast, id thinking involves not only a primary use of the pleasure-unpleasure principle, but also more dream-like and/or psychotic-like symbolism with visual symbolizations and 'very loose associations that are hard to follow and make rational sense of;
10. The superego can be defined by moral/ethical motivated behavior, righteous behavior, righteous indignation, perfectionistic demands and ideals, self and social ideals;
11. 'Object egos' (created by Object Relations) are 'internalized' 'external egos' from years gone by -- in effect, 'carbon copies' of childhood role models and other types of 'transference figures', usually from early childhood, primarily 'the Oedipal Period' (2 years old to 7 years old) of psychological development. Object egos usually function like internalized superego transference figures but not always -- sometimes they can reflect 'counter-superego-object egos' that don't necessarily reflect ethical-moral and/or righteous behavior. Also, object egos reflect internalized versions of 'the entire person' -- moral, immoral, ethical, unethical, 'the whole person', not just a particular type of person and//or a particular part of the person's personality.

I think we have covered enough today.

I bid you a good afternoon.

David Gordon Bain