Sigmund Freud Quotes
"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.""Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation.""The functional importance of the ego is manifested in the fact that normally control over the approaches to motility devolves upon it.""Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.""Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.""Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.""It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world.""One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse.""In mourning, it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia, it is the ego itself.""Where id was, there ego shall be.""The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct.""The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer.""Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.""Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.""In the depths of my heart, I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.""Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks.""Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality.""Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.""He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.""Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities."
