With such a strong subconscious and such a migthy preconscious, how can someone be free at all? Do I decide for myself or, instead, it is just the "irregular harmony" of the previously mentioned factors that decide for myself?
Hello David , in not psychoanalysis is a totally free man , not given forever to the extent that own clinic promotes the position of resumption of the subject in relation to its symptom own psychoanalytic theory constitutes freedom , muma time " Freud advances supported by certain relation to your desire and what is his act ... " ( Lacan , 1964 , p.50)
You can see:
Lipton, S. D. (1955). A note on the compatibility of psychic determinism and freedom of will. The International journal of psycho-analysis, 36(4-5), 355-356.
My opinion is that freedom is possible. It would amount to a “strong” ego with efficient defense mechanisms so that it could oppose the drives of the unconscious (both id and superego) and freely manifest itself, the ego, albeit being just a mediatory functional unit, has its own desires, likings and wantings; the more it manifest them and interfere with them, the more free one is. There are matured defense mechanisms, which, when successful, could free consciousness from automatic entering of contents into consciousness (lack of freedom). Thus, freedom, at least in psychoanalytical terms, would amount to a strong ego as it is understood in Freud’s metapsychology. In neuroscience and psychology this is referred as cognitive control and flexibility (a known functions of the prefrontal cortex, especially DLPFC).
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