In the psychoanalytic or psychodynamic idea tradition, these types of defense mechanisms, or "ego controls," are considered to be activated to regulate emotional stress.
This is the way the individual professional super-ego grows.
What is true for nonequivalent solid representations also holds for our alter egos, those computer programs we write that employ such models.
The loss is a loss of part of the self (memory, intellect and other aspects of ego functioning).
This is part of the pattern of depersonalization and diminishing the ego.
Manly independence decayed as the individual allowed his body to be built up by such "external" forces of the "non-ego" (1904 247).
It is dogma to assume that freely choosing to override our perceived ultimate reproductive interests necessarily involves ego-protective self-deceptions and false rationalisations.
This suggests that the petty networks included a larger number of people whose only contact was to ego, the anchoring individual.
