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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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The training comes as Ethiopia faces multiple security challenges, including continued fighting in parts of the northern Tigray region, conflict in Amhara and insecurity in Oromia.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

Carriers involved in the conflict have operated around the clock for months at a time with little rest, setting modern-day records for their length of deployment and consecutive days at sea without a port call.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Investors, in the recent past, reliably flocked to the safety of gold, Treasurys and the U.S. dollar when regional conflict or war between nations looked imminent, or likely to intensify.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

Some Syrians took to the streets in protest last month after petrol costs jumped by 26 percent following a government decision to increase prices amid global surges due to the regional conflict.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Indeed, his account of Leibniz’s conflict with Newton is not symmetrical, since Leibniz was a plagiarist and Newton was not.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Quentin Fottrell — The Moneyist — answers MarketWatch readers’ questions about their finances, which are often tied to family conflicts.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

The Wall Street Journal’s Heather Somerville reports that a chronic shortage of explosives threatens the Pentagon’s agenda to replenish weapons stockpiles and arm troops with the unmanned systems that have come to define conflicts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

The following month, Noboa said Ecuador would operate two MQ-9 Reaper drones, a platform used extensively by the United States for surveillance and strike missions in conflicts in the Middle East and Africa.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

On Aug. 6, he had been at his job with 2nd Call, which resolves gang conflicts and cleans up neighborhoods.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Throughout this chapter, we will examine some significant conflicts between specific Indigenous nations and European invaders of their homelands during the years from the early 1600s to the late 1700s.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

On primary day, I was personally conflicted about who I’d vote for.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2026

Asked whether Turkish and US plans conflicted, a foreign observer told AFP that Ankara and Washington's positions "are, in fact, aligned".

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

Musk said he isn’t participating in the committee discussions because he is a conflicted party, and that the committees have yet to agree on terms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

“Because I’m a conflicted party, I can’t actually be in the discussions of the special committees,” Musk told investors.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

“I think my conflicted emotions confused the simulation,” he says.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth

“Jensen Huang has become enormously influential in shaping U.S. chip policy, and Nvidia’s commercial interests are intertwined with Washington’s China strategy in complex and sometimes conflicting ways,” Lee said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

By accounting for this complex sediment history, the team reconciled the conflicting measurements and strengthened the evidence for the site's revised age.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

Like so much in parenting, there is endless conflicting advice, and what works for one family might not work for another.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

There have been conflicting signals about the timing of a potential U.S. attack.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

I was trying so hard to navigate my conflicting worlds at school and at home, I left it buried in the back of my mind.

From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana


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