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 ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.""There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle.""Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from itself the external world.""The repressed merges into the id as well, and is merely a part of it.""At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away.""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.""Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation.""The functional importance of the ego is manifested in the fact that normally control over the approaches to motility devolves upon it.""Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.""Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.""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.""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.""One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse.""In mourning, it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia, it is the ego itself.""Where id was, there ego shall be.""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 ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer.""Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.""Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.""In the depths of my heart, I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless."

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