It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
But the repressed merges into the id as well, and is merely a part of it. The repressed is only cut off… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle: it… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In this way the ego detaches itself from the external world. It is more correct to say: Originally the ego includes everything,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
When it happens that a person has to give up a sexual object, there quite often ensues an alteration of his ego… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The functional importance of the ego is manifested in the fact that normally control over the approaches to motility devolves upon it.… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are so hard to 'educate',… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation. There is only one state… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Pathology has made us acquainted with a great number of states in which the boundary lines between the ego and the external… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Ko postavlja pitanje o smislu zivota,s njegovim libidom nije nesto u redu.” — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“When it comes to the small matters in life one should think long and hard, but when it comes to the big ones -whether… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We like to forget that in fact everything in our life is chance, from our genesis out of the encounter of spermatozoon and egg… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It seems to be my fate to discover only the obvious: that children have sexual feelings, which every nurse maid knows; and that the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Actually, the substitution of the reality-principle for the pleasure-principle denotes no dethronement of the pleasure-principle, but only a safeguarding of it. A momentary pleasure,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
