Ego Quotes

"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." "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." "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." "It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am."