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.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface. If we wish to find an anatomical analogy for it we can best identify it with the 'cortical homunculus' of the anatomists, which stands on its head in the cortex, sticks up its heels, faces

Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.