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As for the origin of this energy, Freud wrote in The Ego and [[the Id]] (1923b), for example, that he "reckoned as though there existed in the [[mind]] ...a displaceable energy, which, neutral in itself, can be added to a qualitatively differentiated [[erotic]] or destructive impulse, and augment its [[total]] cathexis. ...It seems a plausible view that this displaceable and neutral energy . . . proceeds from the [[narcissistic]] store of libido—that it is desexualized [[Eros]]" (p. 44). The adherents of ego [[psychology]] have made this supposed neutral energy into the energy powering their "[[conflict]]-free ego."

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