February 2012
“Frederick Douglass once said, “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It...”
– Black History Month: Debunking the 10 biggest myths about black history
January 2012
“I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’...”
– Maya Angelou (via robynthebank)
Chapter one
big booty snow bunnies, watermellon Ciroc and the pursuit of the American Dream.
December 2011
November 2011
Pleasure principle
In Freudian psychology, the pleasure principle is the psychoanalytic concept describing people seeking pleasure and avoiding suffering (pain) in order to satisfy their biological and psychological needs.[1] Furthermore, the counterpart concept, the reality principle, describes people choosing to defer gratification of a desire when circumstantial reality disallows its immediate gratification. In...
Id
The id is unconscious by definition:
“It is the dark, inaccessible part of our personality, what little we know of it we have learned from our study of the dream-work and of the construction of neurotic symptoms, and most of that is of a negative character and can be described only as a contrast to the ego. We approach the id with analogies: we call it a chaos, a cauldron full of seething...
