The B in the first symmetric scale differs from the B in the other scales by the syntonic comma, being over 21 cents.
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"Ego syntonic " was introduced as a term in 1914 by Freud in On Narcissism, and remained an important part of his conceptual armoury.
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Otto Fenichel distinguished between morbid impulses, which he saw as ego-syntonic, and compulsive symptoms which struck their possessors as ego-alien.
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The major third of Pythagorean tuning differed from a just major third by an amount known as syntonic comma, which musicians of the time found annoying.
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The low bid of $ 14.9 million came from Toll Tag Services, Inc ., a joint venture between Amtech Corp . and Syntonic Corp.
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Freud saw psychic conflict arising when " the original lagging instincts . . . come into conflict with the ego ( or ego-syntonic instincts ) ".
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Study of the comma pump dates back at least to the sixteenth century when the Italian scientist Giovanni Benedetti composed a piece of music to illustrate syntonic comma drift.
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Anna Freud stressed how defences which were ego-syntonic were harder to expose than ego-dystonic impulses, because the former are familiar and taken for granted.
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These two deviations are comparable to the syntonic comma ( 21.5 cents ), which this system is designed to tune out from the Pythagorean major third.
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Since then, other tuning systems were developed, and the syntonic comma was used as a reference value to temper the perfect fifths in an entire family of them.
