We have some very, very complicated booby traps up here; we have ego defense mechanisms that want to keep us — A — safe from a survival perspective but B — safe from a self-image perspective.

我们这里有一些非常非常复杂的诱杀装置；我们有自我防御机制， 想要保护我们——A——从生存的角度来看是安全的， 但 B——从自我形象的角度来看是安全的。