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Dastparvardeh Posted 15 years ago
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What is he saying?

http://www.4shared.com/audio/372gu-Pw/this_9.html


"the socially unacceptable impulses, thoughts and fantacies that we entertain but we never enact, because our social self [what???] and we manage our external behaviour accordingly"

and also can you tell me what is he trying to say? I don't get the meanings of "entertain" and "enact" here?
  

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the socially unacceptable impulses, thoughts and fantasies that we entertain but we never enact, because our social self intervene and we manage our external behaviour accordingly. Entertain = think about (doing) Enact = do

  • the socially unacceptable impulses, thoughts and fantasies that we entertain but we never enact, because our social self intervene and we manage our external behaviour accordingly.
  • Entertain = think about (doing) Enact = do
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...the socially unacceptable impulses, thoughts and fantasies that we entertain but we never enact, because our social self intervene and we manage our external behaviour accordingly.

Entertain = think about (doing)

Enact = do
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Hi in simple english:

there are things we feel like doing which are considered bad, we have thoughts and imaginatiions which are considered bad, but we never actually do anything bad because our experiences in society teach us how to control our behavior
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...the socially unacceptable impulses, thoughts and fantasies that we entertain but we never enact, because our social self intervenes and we manage our external behaviour accordingly.


Intervenes is plural, but more importantly you may wish to take

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