Quotes About 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. Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations?

Tony Campolo

#3. If Bill was all id, Hillary is all superego.

Rich Lowry

#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. 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

#6. My natural tendency is to write about zombie bunnies, but one of my first writing teachers got incorporated into my writing superego, and I keep hearing his admonition to make things feel more real the weirder they get.

Chris Adrian

#7. 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

#8. Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and a snooze button on her shield.

Catherynne M Valente

#9. Animation is capable to go beyond superego defense strategies and touch deep human being contents as no other art expression.

Luiz Bolognesi

#10. The Superego, in censoring the unconscious and in implanting conscience, also censors the censor.

Herbert Marcuse

#11. When I was on the swim team as a kid, I used to hide out from my coach by going into the bathroom and hiding out in one of the stalls. And I would literally wrap myself in toilet paper so as not to get hypothermia.

Jeff Kinney

#12. Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.

Marshall McLuhan

#13. A yawning repetitiveness as of a man who knows few words but will not stop talking.

John Updike

#14. The day when love is stronger than fear is the day we'll begin to discover our true power.

April White

#15. Silence, like madness, is only comparative.

Jacques Yonnet

#16. The difference was that all through those eight months I had been trying to substitute an alternate reel. Now I was trying only to reconstruct the collision, the collapse of the dead star.

Joan Didion

#17. I'm not really looking forward to wearing a black rubber suit in the summertime in humid Chicago. If you see a pool of sweat through the city, follow it and you will find me.

Christian Bale

#18. It is a shame for the tongue to cast itself upon the uncertain pardon of other's ears

Joseph Hall

#19. The things he sees are not just remembered; they form a part of his soul.

Maria Montessori

#20. To create laughter, you must first learn to smile

R.W. Erskine

#21. Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

C. G. Jung