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Psychoanalysis Quotes

"The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses."

"Where id was, there ego shall be."

"Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering."

"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."

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

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. "

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

"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."

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

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