Chapter 51: basic instinct

“These are the things we want,” Professor Malaquias said, pacing across the front of the lecture hall. “Simple things. Comfort, sеx, shelter, food. We always want them, and we want them all the time. The id doesn't learn it doesn't grow up. It has the ego telling it what it can't have, and it has the superego telling it what it should want. But the id works solely out of the pleasure principle. It wants. Whatever social skills you've learned, however much we've evolved, the pleasure principle is at work in all of us. So, how does this conflict with the ego manifest itself in the psyche? What do we do when we can't have what we want?”

Sitting in front of Jenny, Lilith was taking vigilant notes. She was sitting with Ray, who had, for the past week, abandoned his original seat with Kyoya and Hahn. Jenny noticed Ray lean over and write something in Lilith’s notebook that caused her to smile and elbow him.

Jenny tried to peek, but Lilith glanced backward and turned the page, smirking. “Ooh