ID-EOLOGY5 (ID-SAVANTISM)

Ascending Into Unconsciousness

(Jan 09/06)
I slept this morning, eventually ascending into unconsciousness at 5.37am, albeit troubled. How I abhor the word ‘albeit’, so puerile, trifling and nugatory. All words, so it seems, are nugatorious. The cigarette brownie arrived this morning with a bagful of benzene, tar, ferric acid and nicotine. Gods be praised, hale with jocundity, merriment and good manners. Bereft of an Ego as I am, thinking is quite a chore. The serfdom of the Id, or Id-chattel, is a vicissitude that Freud left all but uninvestigated. An investigation, therefore, is certainly warranted, albeit well after the fact.

Contrary to literary opinion, James Joyce (Joyless, as he was apt to refer to himself) had no Ego, he was Ego challenged or Ego-chattel-less. Freud himself, the parson of Ego psychology, was ego-less much to his dismay and incessant childish depurations to the contrary. Jung, and the stiff-footed Adler, had neither an Ego nor a Super-Ego, as they were entirely lacking in Ego-ness. However, a case can be made for a Hitler-like attachment to egoism, or false-ego. Jung, after all, had a predilection for cuckolding and messianicism, and a rather diminutive sexual calliope. Adler, on the other hand, had a clubfoot and penchant for sweets and Paraguayan cheroots, which he smoke at his leisure and during analytic sessions regardless of the analysand’s protestations that he not. My analyst is kind enough not to snore during my thrice-weekly sessions, and is a carded member of Physician Against Smoking. Perhaps it is I that am joyless, and not the long-dead James, Leopold adman Bloom, sad cuckolded sodman.

The Swiss have not only mastered the confection of chocolate, but comfit of cuckoldry with a coquetry without compeer. One clever writer/psychoanalyst referred to Jung as the ‘Aryan Christ’, a befitting albeit over zealous esteem of his couch etiquette, and dare I say, sweetmeat elan. A common and shared characteristic of Ego-lessness is the ability of the false-Ego, or Ego-charlatan, to split at will, or in this case, under the guise of a willful Ego. This splitting, which is ongoing and tends to heighten during periods of stress and indecision, is a direct result of the Id taking control where the Ego should be; or more precisely, an Id-Egoism. Descartes believed that the Ego-mechanism was located in the pineal gland, just below and to the left of the basal ganglia. Voltaire suggested that the Ego was a political construct, used as a means to curb and manage civil disobedience. While Nietzsche felt that the Ego was a myth, theistic spectra, and even had Zarathustra had one, it wouldn’t have made him a more skilled tightrope walker.

The severance of the Ego, or as suggested, false-Ego, into divisive parts, or bit-Egos, allows the host to explore areas and vicissitudes otherwise closed off to Ego-intransigent cretins, or Ego-simpletons, or common morons, the choice is yours. The Ego-less Id has it’s function, the least of which is to sublimate unfulfilled childhood wishes into easily attainable primal objects. This fruition, as it is most commonly referred to, is the principle mechanism of the Id-minus-Ego or, Ego-less Id. To use terminology more appropriate to the Gen-X’ers out there, the Id bereft of an Ego is in constant repair, trying to meet the needs of a childish and often virulent Id-monster, or Ego-less Id mechanism. The most common manifestations being, an incessant preoccupation with masturbation, a peevish attitude towards unwanted responsibility, and smart-assedness. Ergo: Joyce, Freud, Jung, Adler and Rupert Pupkin. Thank you for your time, undivided attention, and most of all, good manners.