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ORIGINAL: BitaTruble If, as a dominant, you are interested in removal/reduction of your submissive partners ego, what are the steps you take to remove/lessen the ego of your submissive while allowing them to maintain uniqueness? How do you feel stripping away the 'reality' part of the mind helps/hurts the structure of your dynamic? Does control of the Id outweigh your propensity to have the desire to strip or lessen the ego or super-ego? Freud wrote "... the installation of the super-ego can be described as a successful instance of identification with the parental agency..." Do you, as a dominant, feel that you take the place of your submissives super-ego? What experiences are you willing to share if you have 'superceded' the super-ego of your submissive? Do you believe that the take-over of your submissives super-ego can be reversed and what process do you think would need to be put into place to reintroduce super-ego into a submissive who has transfered that influence to you? As a submissive interested in removal/reduction of your ego, what techniques would work to allow you to achieve such a result? Do you feel that stripping your super-ego is necessary for a successful D/s or M/s relationship? How would or does that effect your daily interactions with your partner? How does that impact on your interactions with others outside of your personal dynamic? eta: Question for switches.. (and feel free to answer any of the above as the mood strikes you!) - how does being a switch temper any motivation (if it does) to reduce/remove ego, control id or supercede your partners super-ego? I would love to see the answer to this question in conjunction with some of the others. (I'm nosy that way!) * feel free to use standard dictionary definitions of id, ego and super-ego or to explain what you would mean by an alternative definition so we can all stay on the same page and understand one another The id keeps you alive; the ego sets you free; the superego tempers freedom with moral character. Using those definitions, I see no point in suppressing the ego. I don't want to dictate her desires to her; influence, yes. Sexually I want her to please me and be pleased by doing so; but I don't want to control her favourite colour of shoe, or her choice of book to read. I want to strike a balance between myself and her. She already strives to do this in several ways that I've noticed. I am both proud of her for taking these steps and mindfully respectful. If there are things she needs from me, I will work with her because her happiness is very important to me. I also don't need to tell her right from wrong. She's a smart girl. If I ever disagree with her on a moral issue, I suppose we'll share our thoughts like adults, but in the end it's not about the "right" view. I respect her, so I would be more than willing to share a different outlook with her, but not replace her belief system. She's my partner and my friend, and if she gives me more I would accept it graciously, but not demand it. I would also say that it's possible to try and usurp a person's moral centre and/or dictate their primal urges, and it sounds all nice and kinky, but in the context of this discussion it would be wiping a person out. Until the day she kneels and asks me to do so, I have no motive to justify the act; and if she did, and truly wanted it, then yes, I might do so, because it can be done if that is what she truly desires. Anyone can consciously choose that path if they understand that they're not coming back. We already do it to ourselves in little ways throughout life, chipping pieces away and strengthening what remains. The understanding, though, well, that's another story.
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