Externalities Freud

The id is the part of the personality that exists only in the subconscious. According to Freud, the id has no direct contact with the reality. It is the innermost core of our personality and operates according to the pleasure principle. That is, it seeks immediate gratification for its desires, regardless of external realities or consequences. It is not even aware that external realities or consequences exist. 

By the way, how would Freud have understood breathing Certainly not as the expression of an intrinsic brain stem oscillator equipped with its own metabolic energy and its own information encoded in its connections and chemical signals. His model of the brain did not envisage these properties. Using the reflex model he would have to suppose that we breathe in response to external inputs like hypoxia and hypercapnea. Of course the medullary respiratory oscillator is responsive to—and hence... 

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