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"Wakeup call: "you" are not distinct from "your impulses"."

Unless you believe they are biological, the psychodynamic theory asserts that they are learned through interaction with the external h, in the fixing/non-fixing of desires during childhood. So no, "your impulses" are not me, or you.Because these impulse

Unlike the motherfucking communards I can see a distinction between being influenced by other people and being part of a same corporeal magma with them... Relevance here is that "impulses" are at least partly inculcated by interaction with the world, and can also be attenuated, amplified or maybe even re-codified so they manifest differently. So they're not "me", but an "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)?"

No this is just you, again, reading too much into what people are writing. No one here claimed about any purely autonomous ego as this can't exist. Only consciousness is autonomous, maybe, but also is something beyond the self, imo.