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• 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.

  Sigmund Freud

  Ego, World, Influence

  Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

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• The ego is not master in its own house.

  Sigmund Freud

  Self Worth, House, Ego

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

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• We know that the great majority of people have a strong need for authority which it can admire, to which it can submit, and which dominates and sometimes even ill-treats it.

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  Strong, People, Majority

  "Moses and Monotheism".

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• Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.

  Sigmund Freud

  Moving, Thinking, Psychology

  "New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis". Book by Sigmund Freud, transl. by James Strachey, "Anxiety and Instinctual Life" (Lecture 32), 1933.

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• 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.

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  Crazy, Average, Mad

  "Analysis Terminable and Interminable". Book by Sigmund Freud, sect. 5, 1937.

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• I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.

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  Truth, Merit, Telling The Truth

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• We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we also know that we shall remain inconsolable and will never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it be filled completely, it nevertheless remains something else.

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  Change, Grief, Loss

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• The voice of the intellect is soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endless rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which one may be optimistic about the future of mankind.

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  Optimistic, Voice, Doe

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• Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality.

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  Culture, Cost, Heritage

  Freud, Sigmund (2014). “An Outline of Psychoanalysis”, p.60, Read Books Ltd

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• In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.

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  Running, Atheist, Long

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• A layman will no doubt find it hard to understand how pathological disorders of the body and mind can be eliminated by 'mere' words. He will feel that he is being asked to believe in magic. And he will not be so very wrong, for the words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic. But we shall have to follow a roundabout path in order to explain how science sets about restoring to words a part at least of their former magical power.

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  Believe, Order, Magic

  Sigmund Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1953). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: A case of hysteria, Three essays on sexuality, and other works”

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• [The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture.

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  Children, Exposure, Impression

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• Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness.

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  Misery, Unhappiness, Hysterical

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• Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

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  Rejection, Perception, Wish

  Sigmund Freud (2003). “Totem and Taboo”, p.79, Routledge

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• Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

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  Wisdom, Justice, Smoking

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• Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All who wish to reach a higher standard than their constitution will allow, fall victims to neurosis. It would have been better for them if they could have remained less "perfect".

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  Fall, Civilization, People

  Sigmund Freud, Philip Rieff (1997). “Sexuality and The Psychology of Love”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• The game replaces sexual enjoyment by pleasure in movement.

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  Games, Movement, Pleasure

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• 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...The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id.

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  Tyrants, Ego, Three

  "New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis". Book by Sigmund Freud, transl. by James Strachey, "The Anatomy of the Mental Personality" (Lecture 31), 1933.

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• Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their original sense. They give the name of "God" to some vague abstraction which they have created for themselves; having done so they can pose before all the world as deists, as believers of God, and they can even boast that they have recognized a higher, purer concept of God, notwithstanding that their God is not nothing more than an insubstantial shadow and no longer the mighty personality of religious doctrines.

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  Religious, Names, Giving

  Sigmund Freud, Scientific Literature Corporation (1961). “The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud”

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• It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

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  Civilization, Intuition, Natural Instinct

  Sigmund Freud, Peter (AFT) Gay, Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• The gods retain their threefold task: they must exorcize the terrors of nature, they must reconcile men to the cruelty of Fate, particularly as it is shown in death, and they must compensate them for the sufferings and privations which a civilized life in common has imposed on them.

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  Fate, Men, Suffering

  Sigmund Freud, Scientific Literature Corporation (1961). “The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud”

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• public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

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  Self, Psychological, Constructs

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• He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.

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  Faith, Believe, Doe

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• Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.

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  Real, Psychics, Data

  Sigmund Freud, H. W. Chase (2016). “THE “UNCONSCIOUS” TRILOGY: The Interpretation of Dreams, Psychopathology of Everyday Life & Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious: The Dream Book, The Mistake Book, The Joke Book & Freud’s Theories of the Unconscious”, p.435, e-artnow

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• The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.

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  Ambition, Character, Taught Us

  Sigmund Freud (2012). “The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud”, p.544, Modern Library

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