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The ego and the id

The ego and the id

by Sigmund Freud

Original title: Ich und das Es · First published 1927 · 77 pages · about 1 hour to read

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  • “The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.”
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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.”
  • “We obtain our concept of the unconscious, therefore, from the theory of repression … We see, however that we have two kinds of unconscious — that which is latent but capable of becoming conscious, and that which is repressed and not capable of becoming conscious in the ordinary way.”

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