When we encounter the saints of the superego, within us or in others, there is a great risk that the person within us is short-circuited in its connection to the content that constitutes the source of its main relationship. We risk ending up in a kind of eternal trickery to its influence on us, and turn us into constant wisecrackers to its supercilious attitude together with an impulsive cunningness as a defense of the psychic integrity of our psychic person, if we slavishly conform to a society’s unspoken conventions. Where instead of relating to others in a genuine way, we end up in a relationship in which we create martyrs of ourselves in our relation to having our own emotional experiences, while we at the same time try to save others from their’s as saviors when we identify with their martyrdom as our own. Our imperious attitude will make ourselves saints which constantly seek out and provokes others to be villains. We identify our own personal psychic content with that of others instead of the influence that is derived from our objective psychic properties, and we force others to bear it like martyrs for us. In this way, the demands of the superego may turn us into constant jokers, or to adopt an attitude of being impregnable wiseacres that sacredly ally us with the commands of the superego that we then transfer onto others, that is, the total devotion we force ourselves to have to the inadequate connection that the collective consciousness has in its relationship to our inner person, so that it does not break the fragile vessel it represents to us and to people around us.
Just listen to how we treat each other in our own relationships. In our own society. Its relation to other countries and to our native cultures. We constantly push each other to become saints or villains. This is also the essence of all media. All in relation to that which relies solely on the superego, our tacit agreements with it and its commandments. We sacrifice what feels genuine and true within us and try to save others from their misdeeds so that they don’t have to see what they are doing as long as we can maintain a blind eye to our own role in it. We become its collaborators and peers in our sanctimonious attitude and arrogance towards the suffering of individual people. In this way, we can have our saintly relationship with the collective undisturbed and instead make others look bad in our own standoffish insensity, and then blame our own need to break the superego’s influence on us on others, while forcing them to play the role of the opposite of our saintly attitude. Have we not all been brought to earth, and reminded of this at some time or another in our personal relationships when we have become too rational and academically or politically haughty instead of maintaining our basic inner humans involvement in the collective consciousness, and the world as psyche or soul.