Where id is, there shall ego be.

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... …

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.

One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy, and the rider has the pre…

The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.

The key to the period appeared to be that the mind had become aware of itself ... The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversio…

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.