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Hello, superego.

Wakeup call: "you" are not distinct from "your impulses". This Kantian idea of "freeing" "you" from "your impulses" is actually a fantasy of your superego (internalised parent) of finally being free from the bioenergetic sources of life. It's the psychological equivalent of bosses wanting "freedom" to exploit their workers.

Agreed re: sexual predators generally have split desires, they're projecting an internal dominator/dominated relation. But this isn't some bad habit they learnt by rote in sex offender class and never thought to question. It doesn't mechanically follow from outer systems either, at most they shift the opportunity-structure for it. You seem to think the "true" self, separate from its heteronomous "impulses", is 100% good, is this right? And if so, how can you explain the damage done by superegos (which may well also be the part acting in the case of sexual predators)?