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I think being UDUF makes it harder for others to type you, but easier for you to type yourself, because being UD allows you to step out of your ego and look at yourself from a different perspective. Probably UD and UF are more oriented toward “self awareness”, and SD and SF are the opposite.Argument for why we are born UDUF
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My reasoning for babies being UDUF is that the ego is not developed when you’re born, so it must be only the unconscious and possibly superego that are present (UD).The psyche of babies
Babies are born without an ego. They only have the id - as defined by Freud - and operate on instinct, according to the pleasure principle. It makes sense to me that young babies are driven solely by the id, because they initially are not self-aware and do not yet have the desire for anything beyond their basic needs being met. There’s no self-awareness or higher-level thinking going on.
The shadow then grows as a layer over the id, or maybe a better way to put it is that it expands beyond the id. In other words, the id is at the root of all cognition.
Followed by the superego, which may happen when the child first becomes self-aware, or maybe it’s when the ego develops.
The ego is a symbiote that grows upward from the unconscious. It appears when the child becomes self-aware and is not fully formed until about 2-3.
This may be why people struggle with their superego… if the superego develops first, it gets a taste of freedom and thinks that it’s the ego, only to be shoved to the background when the ego develops. The superego is constantly trying to supplant the ego and get that freedom back.
As mentioned, the unconscious and the ego have a symbiotic relationship. The ego’s purpose is to act as a filter for the unconscious. Since it is not getting constantly bombarded by raw reality, the unconscious is freed up to do background planning and problem solving. It communicates with the ego via things like dreams, impulses, feelings, intrusive thoughts, intuition, etc.
Link to originalThe second reason is that being born is the first traumatic event of a person’s life - you’re ripped from the safety, comfort, and order of the womb and thrust into a bright, loud, chaotic world that you don’t understand. How could that not make you UF, at least for a time?
In my mind, the process of developing consciousness for a baby is becoming SDSF, and this is also why child abuse and other extenuating circumstances fuck children up so badly. It interferes with this process of becoming SDSF and developing the ego, keeping them in UDUF and causing the ego to be underdeveloped. It’s like a tree trying to grow in a hostile environment - it will grow in stunted and twisted.
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- SDSF → very little to no self-awareness.
- SDUF → becoming self-aware. You start to realize things about yourself that you don’t like.
- UDUF → being very self-conscious, to your detriment. You’re aware of all your flaws.
- UDSF → climbing out of the valley of self-consciousness. Still very self-aware but more accepting of your flaws.
To further extend this, the thought just occurred to me that maybe the superego is necessary to be self-aware at all. Why are (most?) animals not self-aware? As far as we know, they cannot self-reflect like humans can; they operate solely on primal instinct.
As I hypothesized, being UDUF may make it easier to step outside your ego and look inward at yourself. Maybe this is the mechanism through which we gained sentience. Chase likens accessing the superego’s power to making a deal with the devil… and I can’t describe humanity’s gain of self-awareness in exchange for all of the problems that come with it as anything other than a Faustian bargain.