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According to Sigmund Freud, conflict often arises between which two parts of the mind?

conflict

[kuhn-flikt, kon-flikt] / kənˈflɪkt, ˈkɒn flɪkt /




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So there’s just a little bit of conflict going on.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

The conflict highlights an emerging debate about synthetic scents: Many hotels use them, but some sensitive guests consider those aromas as welcome as secondhand smoke.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

That compares with about 124p a litre before the conflict began but well below the peak of almost 190p in the summer of 2022.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Investors are closely watching developments in the Iran conflict, crude oil prices and bond yields.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Hume, in distinguishing relations of ideas from matters of fact, is recapitulating the fundamental intellectual conflict which gave rise to the Scientific Revolution.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

That has left them vulnerable to strains from unplanned outages, natural disasters or conflicts.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

Morgan promises to bring a real-time reporting system that would use blockchain technology and artificial intelligence, allowing the public to review the price and recipients of contracts and highlight any conflicts of interests.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The missile has been widely used in recent conflicts including the wars in Ukraine and Iran.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Metz, which changed hands between France and Germany in past conflicts, is associated with Robert Schuman, considered one of the founding fathers of the European Union, who is buried just outside the city.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

In part that was because of internal conflicts in which outsiders had no role.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson

The author himself was conflicted about her, writing Cathy as a dangerous beauty incapable of empathy in his book, yet expressing how dear she was to him in letters to his editor, Pascal Covici.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

Photo make-believe: I’m conflicted about the new suite of Apple Intelligence photo-editing tools.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

He feels conflicted about using the word “queer” to categorize his work, but only largely because he does not want his pieces to be reduced to tacky, “kitsch-ified” representations of Latinidad.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

And now 30 years on, McDonald appeared conflicted over breaking that street code.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

Luke still looked conflicted, as if Toby was asking him to choose between life and death.

From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss

Roberts, who has been following the developments, reflected on her conflicting encounter with Pike and how it had stayed with her as both a journalist and a human being.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

The uncertain status of TPS has led to sometime conflicting actions by government agencies or employers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

The geopolitics of the Horn of Africa are fiendishly complex, with shifting alliances and the involvement of many outside actors with conflicting interests.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Reconstructing the bat family tree was particularly difficult because different parts of bat genomes can preserve conflicting signals about their evolutionary history.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

“My heart is filled with deep and conflicting emotions today,” the seventy-eight-year-old rabbi said.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride




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