It's the dots here I find intriguing. If you have time, could you expand on your remarks? A few years ago I had a seven year old try to break into my home while I was there. Every word out of his mouth was a lie. When his father came for him, I saw him whack this child so hard he flew across the room. I reported that, but wondered, as does the other poster, can someone simply be born absolutely evil with no help from hsi environment?
(And could the perp be Burke?)
Not only that, there a is noticeable, antagonistic sarcasm in both and they are both exceedingly long (for a dude).
By the way, $118,000 in the bills described would occupy a space of 2/3's of a box of a 500 sheet ream of paper....No large attache case needed.
Freud's structural theory
Ego
In Freud's theory, the ego mediates between the id, the super-ego and the external world. Its task is thus to find a balance between primitive drives, morals and reality while satisfying the Id. Its main concern is with the individual's safety and allows some of the Id's desires to be expressed, but only when consequences of these actions are minimal. Ego defense mechanisms are often used by the ego when Id behavior conflicts with reality. This conflict occurs between the Id and either society's morals, norms, and taboos or between the Id and the individual's expectations as a result of the internalization of these morals, norms, and taboos into the superego.
Although in his early writings Freud equated the ego with the sense of self, he later began to portray it more as a set of psychic functions such as reality-testing, defence, synthesis of information, intellectual functioning, and memory.
The word ego is taken directly from Latin where it is the nominative of the first person singular personal pronoun and is translated as "I myself" to express emphasis.
Super-ego
The super-ego is a symbolic internalization of the father figure and cultural regulations. The super-ego tends to stand in opposition to the desires of the id because of their conflicting objectives, and is aggressive towards the ego. The super-ego acts as the conscience, maintaining our sense of morality and the prohibition of taboos. Its formation takes place during the dissolution of the Oedipus complex and is formed by an identification with and internalization of the father figure after the little boy cannot successfully hold the mother as a love-object out of fear of castration. "The super-ego retains the character of the father, while the more powerful the Oedipus complex was and the more rapidly it succumbed to repression (under the influence of authority, religious teaching, schooling and reading), the stricter will be the domination of the super-ego over the ego later on — in the form of conscience or perhaps of an unconscious sense of guilt" (The Ego and the Id, 1923). The concept of super-ego has been subject to criticism for its sexism. Women, who are considered to be already castrated, do not identify with the father, and therefore form a weak super-ego, apparently leaving them susceptible to immorality and sexual identity complications. In Freud's work Civilization and Its Discontents (1930) he also discusses the concept of a "cultural super-ego".
Id
The id ("das Es", cf. Latin id, English it, German es) is the psychical system "which behaves as though it were the Unconscious", or the "dynamically unconscious repressed", in effect, the reservoir of need-gratification impulses such as the primitive instinctual drives of sexuality and aggression. Freud believed that the id is inborn, operating on the dynamics of the primary process mode of thinking. The drives of the id are said to work according to the pleasure principle, requiring immediate gratification or release without concern for external exigencies. Though hunger itself may be seen as a pure id desire, the crying of the hungry infant is already an instinctive attempt to relate, that is, to communicate that need to the object of the drive in question, namely, one who can help to satisfy that need. Thus drives are linked to object relations, as Freud observed in his 1895 essay "Project for a Scientific Psychology".
Freud may have borrowed the term das Es from his advocate and personal acquaintance Georg Groddeck. Groddeck, a pioneer of psychosomatic medicine and self-proclaimed "wild analyst", published Das Buch vom Es (roughly, "The Book of It") several weeks before Freud published The Ego and the Id (1923). German readers would have been aware of Nietzsche's previous use of "it" to describe that which is impersonal and subject to natural law within us.
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My brother is pure "Id" as he has no or very little concience. His "primitive desires" are the only driving force in his life. There is no or very little "ego" to act as a balance to his over powering "Id". His self-defense mechanism is to lie and to ignore anything that is contrary to his id's desires. He would run away from home as a small 6 or 7 year old and tell absolute horror stories to people he could con into giving him what he wanted, ie, food, transportation, shelter, etc. And these people were almost always senior citizens, thus as an adult he became a gigolo and preyed upon elderly rich women. Apparently, his brain is structured abnormally for some reason that may never be discovered by science. Others like him are everywhere in this world. It may be a birth defect, either genetically caused or developmentally produced in the womb. In either case, I believe that he is incurable and will be this way until he dies...................
I have suspected him from the very beginning. here is my reasoning:
If, the father had killed JonBenet, the mother would have been outraged. Conversely, if the mother had killed JonBenet, the father would have been outraged. If Burke, the little brother, had killed his sister, then the parents, in order to avoid losing both children, would have concocted this story of an intruder and kidnapping with a stupidly written note. Burke would have been put i some institution for probably the rest of his life, and Patsy could not accept this situation. She wrote the ignorant kidnapping note, edited it, and perfected it to her satisfaction, and then placed it where it was found. The crime scene was cleaned as best they could and the body hidden in the basement.
This may be just conjecture on my part, but I don't think Karr did this. He's just a sick person who wants attention. Only his DNA found there would convince me, and even then it could have been put there after the fact. Having only my brother as a guide, I believe Burke is probably the prime suspect. A person, such as my brother, can lie so convincingly, he can appear as an innocent little angel to even professional investigators. The parent's actions, on the day of the murder, were so out of whack with what would be expected of a grieving parent, that it made me extremely suspicious of Burke..........