How To Handle Your Demons | Richard Schwartz

It's the ten percent happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello everybody, how we doing? I have long been fascinated by the notion of demons, the hob goblins that we all have knocking around in our heads, neurotic patterns that

recur and often Toxic and destructive ways. I actually went so far as to look into the history of this notion. It turns out. It's quite ancient.

The idea that we have an interior cast of characters of fractious intracranial committee. It can be found in both ancient spirituality and also in modern psychology. The Hindus referred to our mental dramatist personae as avatars. The Greeks called them Damons, so did the Christians, although with a different spelling. fast forward several centuries and you have Sigmund Freud, the father of modern psychology, who divided the psyche into the id, the ego, and the super ego.

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