The sick body and the superego

Clinical experience reveals the intimate connections between the sick body and the economy of the superego. For the Freudian model of the second theory of drives and the second topic, the superego is rooted in the id, and represents it to the ego. If the post-oedipal superego protects the ego by channeling internal destructiveness, the disorganization of the superego engenders a liberated destructiveness in the id and in the ego that expresses itself in the form of an unconscious feeling of guilt or an unconscious need for punishment.The somatic solution thus becomes one of their privileged outcomes.