Case study

Today’s case study is anger.

The shambles that is yesterday’s hypothesis would suggest that anger, an emotion, is an attempt by the id to control the host body.

Some sensory input has gone into the ego and then been routed directly to the id for instant processing.

The dalek has responded with an ‘exterminate’. It has detected a threat and wants it removed, one way or the other.

However the ego also sent a supplementary signal to the super ego to do a bit of complex modeling on the side. It has come back with a likely scenario which suggests future sadness if the anger is not attenuated by the ego on the way out of the body.

Instincts versus beliefs. Actions and emotions.

General grinding of cogs… over heating…a bit of steam… ego pops a valve…host body decides to simply shut down all systems via the influence of alcohol and deal with this tomorrow.

I can’t help but think that, in the modern day, little of this has anything to do with survival. Are we doomed to play out the ghosts of evolutionary processes past?

The more I understand, the more my beliefs can moderate the ego. However my real interest is in doing a little surgery on the id.