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Sigmund Freud Quotes

Biography: Sigmund Freud is known for founding psychoanalysis. Born in 1856 in Au... more Biography: Sigmund Freud is known for founding psychoanalysis. Born in 1856 in Austria, Freud developed key theories on the unconscious mind, the significance of dreams, and the structure of personality. His influential work established concepts such as the id, ego, and superego, shaping the field of psychology. less

"The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life."

Tags: Morality, Virtue, Life choices, Good vs evil, Moral philosophy

"Everyone has wishes which he would not like to tell to others, which he does not want to admit even to himself."

Tags: Internal conflict, Hidden feelings, Self-denial

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

Tags: Psychology, Self-identity, Ego, Psychoanalysis, Human consciousness

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

Tags: Personal growth, Philosophy, Self-awareness, Psychology, Consciousness

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

Tags: Mental health, Psychology, Ego, Psychoanalysis, Repression

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

Tags: Mental health, Psychology, Human behavior, Ego, Reason

"There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle."

Tags: Resistance, Ego, Psychoanalysis, Unconscious mind, Human psychology

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

Tags: Self-awareness, Personal development, Identity, Psychology, Consciousness

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

Tags: Mental health, Psychology, Human behavior, Psychoanalysis, Unconscious mind

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

Tags: Love, Relationships, Psychology, Passion, Connection

"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 reconcile the claims and demands of all three."

Tags: Personal development, Mental health, Ego, Coping mechanisms, Self-understanding

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

Tags: Self-awareness, Mental health, Psychology, Consciousness, Individualism

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

Tags: Psychology, Human behavior, Ego, Psychoanalysis, Behavioral science

"Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them."

Tags: Childhood, Child development, Behavioral science, Child psychology, Egoism

"Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another."

Tags: Self-discovery, Mental health, Decision making, Ego, Psychoanalysis

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