True Self - Apolline n Dionysian

Occurs to me that that model of self with the ego being constructed by a greater self sits with Freud and ancient Greek concepts as well.

For greater self read Id; for ego read Apolline and greater self read Dionysian.

This is where "my muse" began because I wished to access my Dionysian to rid myself of Apolline and have always asked girls one thing: to stop me thinking.

Really then I wished to destruct the social construction and free myself from it.

Dionysian/Id tho has a bad name. It is unruly, unreasonable, unpredictable etc.

I had that idea of irreason which was supposed to be space between the rational Ego and the dangerous Id. Load of rubbish.

From Buddhism (Religion in general: Man in God's image etc) we know that the True Self is Good. If my Id broke through the tired constructions of myself in class on Monday that is because my Id has not been educated very well. It is one thing to apply the teaching to ones Ego and "act" out the answer - it is another to truly comprehend and become enlightened. Beautiful Machine is what one monastic calls it - the person who can act beautifully.

So this is why meditation etc are so important because they get beneath the constructed Ego which I have sort in all the wrong places like Love and Orgasm etc ...