Id Ego Quotes

#1. Ego, id, and superego are terms familiar to all, but for many years, Freud's psychoanalytic theory has thrived in English departments around the country as a tool for interpreting literary texts but has rarely, if ever, been discussed in science departments.

Siri Hustvedt

#2. Our life force is a form of flowing energy, a blast of verve renewed through our ongoing daily interactions and the inevitable collisions between the id and the ego.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#3. The books are the books, and a lot of the stuff is some version of your id or your ego.

Brian Michael Bendis

#4. I've discovered a new affliction; it's called Orphan Black Eyes. When people ask me what I'm working on and I tell them Orphan Black ... they usually clutch a part of my body and their eyes go wide and a little crazy. People are MAD for this show. As am I.

Michelle Forbes

#5. And considering I haven't showered in over a week, you really don't smell much worse than I do; maybe we'll cancel each other out.

Isaac Marion

#6. An angel, legend has it, took pity on a little shepherd girl who had nothing to give to the Infant Jesus in his manger. The angel handed her a weed, but first transformed it into this beautiful flower of winter.

Allen Lacy

#7. Where id is, there shall ego be

Sigmund Freud

#8. In the end, self-indulgence is very much about your ego and your vanity and your own id. The more you can indulge in it, the more pleasurable it becomes. And then when it feeds out, it's able to penetrate the mind and create a reaction.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#9. Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the relation between the ego and its environment (outer world).

Sigmund Freud

#10. She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.

Patrick Rothfuss

#11. But the repressed merges into the id as well, and is merely a part of it. The repressed is only cut off sharply from the ego by the resistances of repression; it can communicate with the ego through the id.

Sigmund Freud

#12. 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

#13. 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.

Sigmund Freud

#14. Ego and superego were dispatched with a single swift, killing blow and in swaggered my new ruler - that primitive little hedonistic bastard, the id.

Karen Marie Moning

#15. While Sigmund famously focused on the unconscious (the id), Anna made the ego seem more important, particularly in respect of therapy and psychoanalysis. Her

Tom Butler-Bowdon

#16. As long as a self is driven by an id to a Thou, it is not a matter of love, either. In love the self is not driven by the id, but rather the self chooses the Thou.

Viktor E. Frankl

#17. Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.

Vera Farmiga

#18. There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it.

Charles Dickens

#19. Atonement (at-one-ment) consists in no more than the abandonment of the self-generated double monster-the dragon thought to be God (superego) and the dragon thought to be Sin (repressed id). But this requires an abandonment of the attachment to ego itself, and that is what is difficult.

Joseph Campbell

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

Sigmund Freud

#21. Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

Alphonse Karr

#22. Where id was, there ego shall be.

Sigmund Freud

#23. She grew into a quiet, beautiful young woman. The beauty was a nuisance, like smog and poverty.

John Varley

#24. A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis to that between ego and outer world.

Sigmund Freud

#25. You never know who is going to get back into my life.

Preeti Shenoy