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Yes, people sometimes define the aspiration of psychoanalytic treatment in terms of the phrase, "Where id is, there shall ego be." But Freud knew what a sexual orgasm was and how important orgasms are. He defined "happiness" as the "satisfaction of a wild impulse untamed by the ego."
In the domain of society, people were more impressed by the second statement than the first. The 20th Century might be defined as the time in which human beings increasingly sought to achieve satisfaction by enacting "wild impulses untamed by the ego."
Richard Koenigsberg
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