Psychology Quotes

"One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse." "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." "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." "The functional importance of the ego is manifested in the fact that normally control over the approaches to motility devolves upon it." "Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation." "At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away." "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 ego-feeling we are aware of now is thus only a shrunken vestige of a far more extensive feeling." "The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface." "Dream disfigurement, then, turns out in reality to be an act of the censor." "The ideas so far produced are insufficient for the interpretation of the dream." "The dream is a sort of substitution for those emotional and intellectual trains of thought."