Quotes About Id Ego And Superego

#1. 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

#2. The trajectory of this country [USA] is not positive and particularly for the disadvantaged, as we see what's happening. The gains in productivity have dropped, the gains in income for the middle class and the least advantaged have slowed, at best.

Charles Koch

#3. The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot.

David Lee Roth

#4. 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

#5. It's the intent, not the word, that makes something harsh.

Lisa McMann

#6. The harder you try to control your girlfriend the further you'll drive her away, so stop acting like a dumbbell.

Jeanne Phillips

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. One reason why Shakespeare's plays remain so popular is that they're now regularly presented in updated stagings with a contemporary flavor.

Terry Teachout

#10. In the middle of his performance, it dawned on me that this was exactly the effect Derek Novak had on me; one way or another, he always took my breath away.

Bella Forrest