Sigmund Freud Quotes

"The ego is not master in its own house." "One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse." "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." "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 interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind." "The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety." "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. "