From the new pocket book series, featuring key ideas from The School of Life exploring self-knowledge.

In his later work, Freud proposed that the human psyche could be divided into three parts: Id, ego and super-ego. Freud discussed this model in the 1920 essay Beyond the Pleasure Principle, and fully elaborated upon it in The Ego and the Id (1923), in which he developed it as an alternative to his previous topographic schema (i.e., conscious, unconscious and preconscious).

The id is the completely unconscious, impulsive, childlike portion of the psyche that operates on the "pleasure principle...

100 days - 100 questions.

In a world where we are constantly influenced by society, culture, and expectations, it’s easy to lose sight of who we truly are. This book invites you to take a journey of self-discovery through 100 days of introspective questions.

Peel away the layers of imposed beliefs, challenge your assumptions, and reflect on what truly matters to you. Each question is designed to help you reconnect with your authentic self and live with greater awareness and intention.

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Ubuntu is an African philosophical tradition that embodies the ability of one human being to empathize with another. It is the quintessence of African humanism, communalism, and belonging. As the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu anticipated, Ubuntu resonated with the moral intuition of the majority of black South Africans in the 1990s. As a result, it became the foundational ethical basis for articulating a new post-apartheid era of reconciliation and forgiveness in the face of a history marked b...