It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?

We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a 'dark continent' for psychology.

But the repressed merges into the id as well, and is merely a part of it. The repressed is only cut off sharply from the ego by the resistances of repression; it can communicate with the ego through the id.

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

The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.

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