Psychoanalysis Quotes

"The ego is not master in its own house." "Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id." "The goal of psychoanalysis is to turn neurotic misery into ordinary human unhappiness." "The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind." "The madman is a dreamer awake." "If we subject the content of the dream to analysis, we become aware that the dream fear is no more justified by the dream content than the fear in a phobia is justified by the idea upon which the phobia depends." "The ideas so far produced are insufficient for the interpretation of the dream." "Dream disfigurement, then, turns out in reality to be an act of the censor." "Dreams with a painful content are to be analyzed as the fulfillments of wishes." "Dreams may be thus stated: They are concealed realizations of repressed desires." "The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface." "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." "The repressed merges into the id as well, and is merely a part of it." "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." "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."