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Psychology Quotes

"The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer."

― Sigmund Freud

"The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct."

― Sigmund Freud

"Where id was, there ego shall be."

― Sigmund Freud

"In mourning, it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia, it is the ego itself."

― Sigmund Freud

"One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse."

― Sigmund Freud

"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."

― Sigmund Freud

"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."

― Sigmund Freud

"The functional importance of the ego is manifested in the fact that normally control over the approaches to motility devolves upon it."

― Sigmund Freud

"Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation."

― Sigmund Freud

"At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away."

― Sigmund Freud

"The repressed merges into the id as well, and is merely a part of it."

― Sigmund Freud

"Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from itself the external world."

― Sigmund Freud

"The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions."

― Sigmund Freud

"Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id."

― Sigmund Freud

"The repressed is only cut off sharply from the ego by the resistances of repression; it can communicate with the ego through the id."

― Sigmund Freud

"The ego-feeling we are aware of now is thus only a shrunken vestige of a far more extensive feeling."

― Sigmund Freud

"The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface."

― Sigmund Freud

"Dream disfigurement, then, turns out in reality to be an act of the censor."

― Sigmund Freud

"The ideas so far produced are insufficient for the interpretation of the dream."

― Sigmund Freud

"The dream is a sort of substitution for those emotional and intellectual trains of thought."

― Sigmund Freud

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