Abstract
The main body of the paper leads to the insight that there might be a correlational and/or developmental relationship between systems, layers, structures, levels of consciousness and Freud’s model of the mind. It rests on three premises or postulates: 1) mesoderm might provide the key to the organic basis of Freud’s topographical and structural models, both of which involve primary and secondary systems; 2) mesoderm is not a limiting skin, but a layer that simultaneously creates space and connects: 3) as it gives rise to the major structural components and organs of the inner body including the notochord (made of three-dimensional meso tissue) which underlies and promotes the development of the CNS made of neuroectoderm, mesoderm also involves primary and secondary aspects. In this paper, the possible links between these aspects are explored. As the activities, contents, and history related to the meso layer predate temporal reasoning associated with the prefrontal cortex, our contact with this deeper layer is either direct through feeling and sensation, which predate verbal thought, or indirect using free association and dreams. This perspective also throws light on Freud’s agents of the psyche or soul, where the ego is the chief protagonist and whose actions and decisions are affected by unconscious processes. Resistance to accessing this inner “unconscious” layer is probably related to an early tendency in controlling the expression of emotional and instinctual behaviour.
Highlights
It rests on three premises or postulates: 1) mesoderm might provide the key to the organic basis of Freud’s topographical and structural models, both of which involve primary and secondary systems; 2) mesoderm is not a limiting skin, but a layer that simultaneously creates space and connects: 3) as it gives rise to the major structural components and organs of the inner body including the notochord which underlies and promotes the development of the CNS made of neuroectoderm, mesoderm involves primary and secondary aspects
In Freud’s topographic theory, the unconscious “operates via the primary process... the perception consciousness system operates via the secondary process (Boag, 2017, abstract), and in Freud’s structural theory, the id is associated with the primary unconscious system and the ego, which grows out of the id, and superego to the secondary system
Freud’s (1923) new structural model consisted of three elements: the id, which is subject to instinctual desires, a moralizing agent known as the super-ego, and the ego, a mediating agent in between
Summary
The thesis that there is possible correlational and/or developmental relationship. T. My initial investigation involved the consideration of a possible link between the middle of the three-germ layer that forms during our anatomical development, known as mesoderm, and the organic basis of Freud’s topographic model of the mind and his structural model of the psyche. (and) the perception consciousness system operates via the secondary process (Boag, 2017, abstract), and in Freud’s structural theory, the id is associated with the primary unconscious system and the ego, which grows out of the id, and superego to the secondary system As these two theories and the development of our inner mesoderm layer and the neural system made of neuroectoderm involve primary and secondary aspects, it is suggested they may be linked through correlation and/or developmentally in terms of the sequence in which they unfold. Among other things, I examine the relationship between Freud’s key terms and our anatomical development, as well as exploring the “perception consciousness systems” used by the id and ego
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