In one of my classes we have been talking about Freud's theories.  Most of the lecture has been on the developmental stages.  Finally today the professor talked about the structures of personality.  I was excited about this until the professor's bias seemed to show up again.  He characterized the super-ego as the prohibitive, strict, and overly moral "church lady" and that the ego is the appropriate balancer between the impulsive id and the oppressive super-ego.  In reading Freud, I recall that she characterized the dynamic as such to a certain extinct but most objective descriptions of the theory go on to describe the super-ego as the appropriate conscious.  I believe that the characterization that the professor described was an unhealthy psychic apparatus.

I got to talk to a friend about spiritual matters.  he seemed to need to talk and had a lot to talk about.  In fact I began to notice that it was very difficult to engage in a two way discussion. It seems that he has a real hard time stopping his mind from moving through an endless chain of thoughts.  Interestingly our conversation drifted into a discussion about the practice of contemplation to gain control of the stream of consciousness.

While doing math homework I experienced this condition where my mind just does not want to retain the information.  It seems that since I have no internal interest in the information my mind is not doing a thorough job of retaining it.  I must be willing to develop an interest in this.  I should ask God for help.

Thanks be to God for this day.