Quotes About Ego

A masculinidade é vinculada com o ego e com a consciência, ela rompeu deliberadamente a relação com a natureza e com o destino em que a consciência matriarcal tem tão profundas raízes.

While in the beginning the ego germ lay in the embrace of the hermaphroditic uroboros, at the end the self proves to be the golden core of a sublimated uroboros, combining in itself masculine and feminine, conscious and unconscious elements, a unity in which the ego does not perish but experiences itself, in the self, as the uniting symbol.

through the masculinization and emancipation of ego consciousness the ego becomes the "hero." The story of the hero, as set forth in the myths, is the history of this self-emancipation of the ego, struggling to free itself from the power of the unconscious and to hold its own against overwhelming odds.

A man whose consciousness is possessed by a particular content has an enormous dynamism in him, namely that of the unconscious content; but this counteracts the centroversion tendency of the ego to work for the whole rather than for the individual content.

Every system resists dissolution and reacts to danger with pain, just as it reacts to stimulation and libido enrichment with pleasure. Since the ego is the center of the conscious system, we identify ourselves primarily with the pleasure-pain reactions of this system as though they were our own. But in reality the source of the ego's pleasure-pain experience is by no means only the conscious system.

Though the anima figure also has transpersonal characteristics, she is closer to the ego, and contact with her is not only possible, but is the source of all fruitfulness.

Although standing from the very beginning under the motto "Away from the unconscious," the ego, as the organ of centre-version, must never lose touch with it, for it is an essential part of its natural balancing function to give the transpersonal world its due place.

Matriarchal castration involves loss of masculine consciousness, deflation, and degradation of the ego. Its symptoms are depression, a flowing off of libido into the unconscious, anemia of the conscious system, and an "abaissement du niveau mentdf (Janet). In the inflation of patriarchal castration brought on by the ego's identification with the spirit, the process is the other way around. It leads to megalomania and overexpansion of the conscious system.

Liberation and free activity only become possible when the ego system has more libido at its disposal than the retentive system, i.e., when the ego's will is strong enough to break away from the corresponding archetype.

The predominance of vegetation symbolism means not only the physiological predominance of the vegetative (sympathetic) nervous system; it also denotes, psychologically, the predominance of those processes of growth which go forward without the assistance of the ego.

Mans vanity transgresses death

The bigger we are, the harder we fall. Despite its hazards some keep on raising their narcissistic profile, wishing to be in the picture all the time, everywhere and at any cost. (Low profile)

Ignore him," Goldenflower advised. "He's so full of himself that he's got no room left for brains.

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.

Only the insane take themselves quite seriously.

Despite what you think you know, most people don't want to fight, especially when evenly matched. A mob will tear an individual to pieces and a man with a gun and a noble cause is happy to kill ever so many women and children, but risking a fair fight—not so easy. That's why you see those pissed young men doing the dance of "don't hold me back" while desperately hoping someone likes them enough to hold them back.

The only thing he thinks of is himself, Stoner pointed out. In his deepest heart he does not regard anyone else as truly human; no one except himself. He is the center of his world. Everything and everyone else revolves around him.

If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals Himself.

I noticed early that pompous people have actually less a high opinion of themselves than a desire to create such an opinion in others.

Like any two men or man-children meeting in the playground or the marketplace they quickly, almost instantly, calculated who could take the other.

Like all truly selfish people, Kliemann believed the minutiae of his life must be fascinating to all.