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Ego Quotes by Sigmund Freud
- The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to…
- Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the…
- One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy,…
- In this way the ego detaches itself from the external world. It is more correct to say: Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches…
- A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis…
- 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…
- Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
- The ego is not master in its own house.
- 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…
- Where id was, there ego shall be.
- Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.
- The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected…
- In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.
More Ego Quotes
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum… — Karen Armstrong
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous,… — Alan Ball
- We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this… — Afrika Bambaataa
- A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to… — Roseanne Barr
- The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by. — David Beckham
- If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living. — Arnold Bennett
- But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They… — Anna Benson
- At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life marshalled before… — Annie Besant
- You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than… — Jello Biafra
- Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. — Theodor Adorno