NEW332H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Psychodynamics, Psychoanalysis, Buddhist Meditation
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Regression: return to a former or less developed state. The most important function of the ego and first described by freud. Synthetic function is the opposite of the regression or isolation of the material from our awareness. Synthetic function intergrade and organize all the function of the mind, even if not everything appears to fit together, assimilates new learning and space for incongruencies, create a sense of coherence and balance. It does not reject the material with consciousness but finds a way to make sense of all our experience, this synthetic function is the organ of the equilibrium. Attention is brought to bear the sense of inherent existence. Through the power of the synthetic capacity of the ego, developed through the cultivation of mindfulness. The goal is to illuminate the self-representation as agent , identify the self-representation as agent as a representation.
