Ego Quotes

"Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id." "The ego is not master in its own house." "Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another." "I have nothing to declare except my genius" "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 represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions." "There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle." "Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from itself the external world." "At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away." "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." "Anything which is more than our necessity is poison. It may be power, wealth, hunger, ego, greed, laziness, love, ambition, hate or anything." "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." "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." "When you are as great as I am it is hard to be humble." "It takes pride and tiger’s drive to build up the confidence, the ego the power to defeat an opponent in the ring."