I have a slug of some coffee to raise the acetylene levels and what is tonight's topic?

Oh yes. So we all have a inner part of the mind which helps regulate our behavior.

It's a kind of mixture of feelings of guilt and shame from the emotional part of the brain and thoughts

comprised of what we should and shouldn't do.

Freud called this super ego, young imago.

They're socializing elements that help us navigate

through a world filled with other people.

And certainly being a social being, which all human beings are,

more or less, the customs, all of the actions, all of the things we need to do to win acceptance in a world filled with judging critical, difficult, each person with their own set of needs and expectations, it requires so much processing.

So what creates this inner regulating set of rules and feelings that guide us that tell us what's okay and what's not

okay. For example, some of the laws that we follow are quite universal.

Virtually every culture prohibits killing, stealing,

but then there's very culturally arbitrary laws that are in some cultures and not in others.

Chewing with your mouth open, belching, cursing your children, public intoxication, walking barefoot into restaurants, how to express

disagreement.

They tend to these guidelines, customs differ from one culture to another.

And more importantly, in fact, they differ

from one family to another family.

The strongest influence on the development

of the super ego is, course in addition to the interactions

we have with teachers and peers and culture the bulk is certainly established in early caretaking relationships.

Essentially the human mind is not only plastic which means it's moldable but the bulk of that a lot of that molding is happening in our first year of life.

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