Reevaluating the Id, Ego and Superego

It is thought in psychoanalysis that the id makes irrational and brutal assaults on the poor ego which innocently only seeks what Cattell calls “hard realism,” and the id is also seen as an assault on superego demands for virtues and morals.

I suggest that the id is grounded in the sacred Spirit-Will which seeks Godhood, and I suggest that the id is not merely an evil, Dionysian, chaotic drive. The id is in its essence civilizing the beast.

This would suggest that the ego and superego should work in harmony with the id, virtues and morals need to reflect the highest goal of life, which seeks to evolve to Godhood, from the material to the supermaterial.

Evolution, natural selection and basic human nature are driven by the instinctive and genetic desire to successfully survive and reproduce, but these are driven by the deeper desire of the Spirit-Will-id to evolve to Godhood.

The problem then would come from misinterpretations of the id. The hard realism of the ego can accept the reality of the activation of the Spirit-Will-id, and the superego can affirm virtues and morals that work in harmony with the will-to-Godhood of the Spirit-Will.

This would also reflect in the freedom/determinism debate as mankind having some choices in a path that is nevertheless determined, like a boulder rolling down a mountainside.

The ego and superego are required as a civilizing force on the id---like riding a somewhat wild horse that more or less knows the basic direction it wants to go---by separating sacred from profane interpretations of the id, by identifying the Path to Godhood from devolutionary disordered impulses.