Sigmund Freud Quotes
"Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.""Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.""The functional importance of the ego is manifested in the fact that normally control over the approaches to motility devolves upon it.""Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation.""The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three.""At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away.""The repressed merges into the id as well, and is merely a part of it.""Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from itself the external world.""There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle.""The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.""The repressed is only cut off sharply from the ego by the resistances of repression; it can communicate with the ego through the id.""The ego-feeling we are aware of now is thus only a shrunken vestige of a far more extensive feeling.""The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface.""Everyone has wishes which he would not like to tell to others, which he does not want to admit even to himself.""The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.""We are what we are because we have been what we have been.""Dreams may be thus stated: They are concealed realizations of repressed desires.""Dreams with a painful content are to be analyzed as the fulfillments of wishes.""Dream disfigurement, then, turns out in reality to be an act of the censor.""The ideas so far produced are insufficient for the interpretation of the dream."