The functional importance of the ego is manifested in the fact that normally control over the approaches to motility devolves upon it. Thus in its relation to the id it is like a man on horse back, who has to hold in check the superior strength of the horse; with this difference, that the rider tries to do so with his own strength while the ego uses borrowed forces.
Sigmund FreudThe voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Sigmund FreudOne becomes gradually accustomed to a new realization of the nature of 'happiness': one has to assume happiness when Fate does not carry out all its threats simultaneously.
Sigmund FreudThe act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
Sigmund Freud