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Psychoanalysis Quotes

"The ego is not master in its own house."

"Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id."

"Dreams may be thus stated: They are concealed realizations of repressed desires."

"Dream disfigurement, then, turns out in reality to be an act of the censor."

"The madman is a dreamer awake."

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

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

"The ideas so far produced are insufficient for the interpretation of the dream."

"Dreams with a painful content are to be analyzed as the fulfillments of wishes."

"One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse."

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

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

"The goal of psychoanalysis is to turn neurotic misery into ordinary human unhappiness."

"The interpretation of dreams is the via regia to the unconscious."

"If we subject the content of the dream to analysis, we become aware that the dream fear is no more justified by the dream content than the fear in a phobia is justified by the idea upon which the phobia depends."

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