ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about Psychoanalytic evidence. The arguments in defence of a divided mind, described earlier, based on repression and representation seem to fail because they imply a super-ordinate part of the mind acting unconsciously to orchestrate divisions–a mind, therefore, that is not itself deceived. This brief account has demonstrated that there are a number of senses in which the division of the mind can, in practice, be understood. It distinguishes at least four forms of partition that have been discussed. The first two are: the partition into a set of working parts according to Freud's structural model of id, ego, and superego; the barrier of repression between consciousness and the unconscious in which the two parts operate according to different rules. The second two are: the representation of the mind as divided; and a division at the pre-propositional desire/wish/wish-fulfilment level, as in Freud's description of the fetishist.
