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noun Psychoanalysis.
the conscious mental activity and logical thinking controlled by the ego and influenced by environmental demands.
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  • But, in reality, all this business of formulation and enforcement is a secondary process, not a primary process at all.

    A Critical Examination of Socialism|William Hurrell Mallock
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