Quotes About Self

What I am at heart, I don't know. But I do know that I love children. That's a fact.

Thus her whole identity hangs in the balance of her love life. She is allowed to love herself only if a man finds her worthy of love.

The pervasion of image has so deeply altered our very relationships to ourselves that even men have become objects--if never erotic objects.

What we call I is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves.

don't know what my life is about and don't examine it. My life will define itself as I live it. The movies will define themselves as I make them.

Where id is, there shall ego be

The ego is not master in its own house.

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside.

In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.

In this way the ego detaches itself from the external world. It is more correct to say: Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from itself the external world. The ego-feeling we are aware of now is thus only a shrunken vestige of a far more extensive feeling - a feeling which embraced the universe and expressed an inseparable connection of the ego with the external world.

That which he projects ahead of him as his ideal, is merely his substitute for the lost narcissism of his childhood - the time when he was his own ideal.

The ego represents what may be called reason and common sense, in contrast to the id, which contains the passions.

Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from itself the external world.

The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface.

They love their delusions as they love themselves.

Ben her ÅŸeyden önce bedenseldir, sadece yüzeyden oluÅŸan bir varl?k deÄŸil ayn? zamanda bir yüzeyin yans?mas?d?r." Sigmund Freud, 'Ben ve O', sayfa 50

Ben'de yaln?zca en derin olanlar deÄŸil en yüce olanlar da bilinçsiz kalabilir demek zorunday?z. Böylelikle, en baÅŸta bilinçli Ben hakk?nda söylediÄŸimiz ÅŸey; onun her ÅŸeyden önce bir Beden-Ben'i olduÄŸu bilgisi, bize sergileniyormuÅŸ gibidir." Sigmund Freud, 'Ben ve O', sayfa 52

Vicdan?n talepleriyle Ben'in yetenekleri aras?ndaki gerilim, 'suçluluk duygusu' olarak alg?lan?r. Toplumsal duygular da, diÄŸer duygularla özdeÅŸ biçimde Ben-ülküsü temeline dayan?rlar." Sigmund Freud, 'Ben ve O', sayfa 67

Pues allí donde el amor despierta, muere el yo, déspota, sombrío. (Observaciones psicoanalíticas sobre un caso de paranoia (Caso "Schreber")

Ben ile O aras?ndaki ayr?m da çok kat? olarak ele al?nmamal?; unutmayal?m ki Ben, O'nun özel bir biçimde ayr?mlaÅŸm?? bir k?sm?d?r." Sigmund Freud, 'Ben ve O', sayfa 69

Just as the planet still circles round its Sun, yet at the same time rotates on its own axis, so the individual partakes in the development of humanity while making his own way through life.