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Sigmund Freud on Mind

1856–1939 Austria

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

New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis (1933)

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

The Ego and the Id (1923)

The ego is not master in its own house.

A Difficulty in the Path of Psycho-Analysis (1917)

Where id is, there shall ego be.

New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis (1933)

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 Ego and the Id (1923)

Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation. There is only one state — admittedly an unusual state, but not one that can be stigmatized as pathological — in which it does not do this. At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away. Against all the evidence of his senses, a man who is in love declares that "I" and "you" are one, and is prepared to behave as if it were a fact.

Civilization and Its Discontents (1929)

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