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Quotation from The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud
“psycho-analysis cannot accept the view that consciousness is the essence of mental life, but is obliged to regard consciousness as one property of mental life, which may co-exist along with its other properties or may be absent”
The Ego and the Id, Ch. I, 'Consciousness and the Unconscious', trans. Joan Riviere (1927)
Freud's restatement of the founding premise of psychoanalysis, which he calls its 'first shibboleth'.
Citation: "psycho-analysis cannot accept the view that consciousness is the essence of mental life, but is obliged to regard consciousness as one property of mental life, which may co-exist along with its other properties or may be absent" — Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id, Ch. I, 'Consciousness and the Unconscious', trans. Joan Riviere (1927). (id freud-the-ego-and-the-id-q1)
