The conscious portion of the personality structure which serves to mediate between the demands of the primitive instinctual drives, (the id), of internalized parental and social prohibitions or the conscience, (the superego), and of reality.
    

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Romantic science and the experience of self : transatlantic crosscurrents from William James to Oliver Sacks / Martin Halliwell.

Inventing our selves : psychology, power, and personhood / Nikolas Rose.

37.2 trillion cells.

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Bio auto graphic. I, in the sky issue... / by Michael C. Nicholson.

Romantic science and the experience of self : transatlantic crosscurrents from William James to Oliver Sacks / Martin Halliwell.

Inventing our selves : psychology, power, and personhood / Nikolas Rose.

37.2 trillion cells.

Dear future me.