Monday, 7 June 2010

Forget Ego... use the Id to make art?

The id comprises the unorganised part of the personality structure that contains the basic drives. The id is unconscious by definition. In Freud's formulation,

"It is the dark, inaccessible part of our personality, what little we know of it we have learnt from our study of the dream-work and of the construction of neurotic symptoms, and most of this is of a negative character and can be described only as a contrast to the ego. We all approach the id with analogies: we call it a chaos, a cauldron full of seething excitations... It is filled with energy reaching it from the instincts, but it has no organisation, produces no collective will, but only a striving to bring about the satisfaction of the instinctual needs subject to the observance of the pleasure principle."

[Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1933)]

Developmentally, the id is anterior to the ego; i.e. the psychic apparatus begins, at birth, as an undifferentiated id, part of which then develops into a structured ego.

The id is responsible for our basic drives such as food, water, sex, and basic impulses. It is amoral and selfish, ruled by the pleasure–pain principle; it is without a sense of time, completely illogical, primarily sexual, infantile in its emotional development, and is not able to take "no" for an answer. It is regarded as the reservoir of the libido or "instinctive drive to create".

MAYBE I DON'T NEED TO RELEASE THE EGO BY MAKING ART WITH LITTLE THOUGHT? MAYBE I CAN USE A LOT OF THOUGHT? THOUGHTS FROM ONE PART OF THE BRAIN? THE Id?

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