The Role of Repression

One is conscious at least some of the time of a tension between taking a more self-oriented course of action and taking a more other-oriented course of action.  On the other hand, one is not likely to be conscious of a tension between taking a more calculative approach and a more cultural approach to a situation, barring being in a discipline in which one or another approach is called for.  That raises an issue for a model of the brain in which a calculative and a cultural center compete for control.  That competition, if it takes place, does so without feeling like a contest between different principles.