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Men have the Super Id… iot gene

I studied the theories of Sigmund Freud during my undergraduate work in college. After years of therapy I am okay now. At least that’s what the voices in my head tell me. They also tell me that I must wrestle with grizzly bears, but I’m not convinced. Freud proposed that we all have three parts to our psychic apparatus; the id, ego and super-ego. The id acts according to the “pleasure principle” and seeks to avoid pain or displeasure aroused by increases in tension. I think Freud mislabeled something here. While we may all have the id, I think men have the Super Id… iot gene, and I am a proud member of this club. I would now like to explain to males, females and everyone else just how the Super Id… iot gene works. I have to do this especially for men because the Super Id… iot gene prevents us from reading books like Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. Men read books that look more like magazines about hunting and motorbikes. Okay, actually, this article is really more for...