Love and decency, Part II

My friend Chris Wertenbacker, author of the book “The Enneagram of G. I. Gurdjieff,” remarks that Sigmund Freud maintained the ego is primarily a body–ego. 

That is to say, the ego is a creature of impulse and desire, of the apparently crude (but in fact frighteningly sophisticated) needs of the body for survival and reproduction. I think you can see at …