What Does Undoing Do

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I have been asked numerous times “how do I get more power for myself?” The answer is
simple. The process is difficult. The difficulties lie in repetition & toleratin
g the restructuring anxiety, along with real world threats from other monkeys. S
o here is the secret: “Power” as metaphor is divided unequally between what Freud ca
lled the id, ego and superego. Keep in mind that Freud’s labels are simply labels
and do not exist in reality but only point to complex structures and processes.
In most people the contaminated id (masochism, self-damaging desires) is control
led primarily by the superego (inculcated authority/cop). Hence, power is expend
ed in impulse and the counter impulse battle. How much power? I would guess the
average person expends more than 75% of their total energies in the struggle bet
ween impulsive desire (id), and the self-flagellating response to the desire (su
perego). Ego functions, i.e. rational and social functions, represent about 25%.
This hypothetical model requires reversal. What does this mean? The superego (wh
ose very existence depends on social and native processes) must be defused and i
ts energy given to the ego. This contradicts Freud’s dictate, that in the healthy
person the id impulses will be replaced by the ego. Instead the superego will be
replaced by the ego and the contaminated id transformed back to the primal id.
The contaminated id must also be defused and the energy given to the ego. This i
s the purpose and meaning of Undoing.
In practice, defusing the superego alone is not sufficient as the contaminated i
d will begin to run wild and get the person into practical trouble with the exte
rnal superego (the “authorities”).
Thus, the contaminated id must be defused at the same time. One problem is that
most monkeys cannot separate practical self- control from superego self-control,
due to conditioning at an early age to (external) authority. This process is ex
istential, in that the helpless infant deifies the adult caretaker regardless of
the caretaker’s qualities. Thus, the infantile processes of deifying the caretake
r/authority suffer from an absence of objective evaluation and discrimination. F
inally, the original superego is further built upon by other adults, media and s
ocial pressure, continuing the innate deifying process to the grave.
-- Dr. CS Hyatt

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