what is external* what is alien to the ego what is bad --are, to begin with, identical.

“What is bad, what is alien to the ego and what is external are, to begin with, identical." 

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Freud (1925) relates the first kind of judgment to what may have originally been experienced as either good or bad, inside or outside. “What is bad, what is alien to the ego and what is external are, to begin with, identical” (p. 237).

 
What is bad, what is alien, what is external.


good. inside.  
bad.  alien to the ego, alien to the inside.  outside.    what is external.