The Freudian self is animality governed by an internal moral garrison.

Evidence

The conflict between Freud and Janet over the mentally ill individual is in no way a moral conflict. The controversy lies in the diagnosis, the etiology, and the therapeutic approach. Yet, Freud presented an ideal image of the self since he integrated the physiological and neurological teachings of the nineteenth century – the fact that we are mammals, made of instincts and desires – with a moral law. The individual keeps watch over himself “by setting up an agency within him to watch over it, like a garrison in a conquered city.” — Alain Ehrenberg, The Weariness of the Self, 256

Categorization

• DEFINE: Freud’s ‘garrison in a conquered city’ image of the superego/agency within the self.
• XREF: connects to: Internal moral self-sanctions can be neutralized by psychosocial mechanisms; Conscience operates as inward self-cruelty, not mere restraint — Wendy Brown, In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise…, 282

Broader Connections

• Conscience operates as inward self-cruelty, not mere restraint #expands (0.85) — Wendy Brown, In the Ruins of Neoliberalism, 282
• Internal moral self-sanctions can be neutralized by psychosocial mechanisms #complicates (0.75)