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In this book, The Ego and the Id, Sigmund Freud delves deeper into the concepts of the human mind and the results of the conflicts and workings between them. All human behaviors and traits, according to this 1923 study, derive from the complicated interactions of three elements of the psyche: the id, the ego, and the superego. Freud claimed these components of the human psyche controlled all processes of personality, behaviors, and traits in a person. The Id was a person’s most basic and impulsive instincts—the ones that feed into our deepest desires and physical needs. The Super-Ego was the opposite of the id. This component controlled our highest morals and standards, operating through our conscience and making us desire to be our most ideal-selves. The piece in the middle is the Ego. The ego mediates between the id and realities of the world around us, while being supervised (and guilted) by the super-ego.

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Sigmund Freud, (born May 6, 1856, Freiberg, Moravia, Austrian Empire [now Příbor, Czech Republic] - died September 23, 1939, London, England ), Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis. Freud may justly be called the most influential intellectual legislator of his age. His creation of psychoanalysis was at once a theory of the human psyche, a therapy for the relief of its ills, and an optic for the interpretation of culture and society. Despite repeated criticisms, attempted refutations, and qualifications of Freud’s work, its spell remained powerful well after his death and in fields far removed from psychology as it is narrowly defined. 

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  • "Where id is, there shall ego be"
  • "In many criminals, especially youthful ones, it is possible to detect a very powerful sense of guilt which existed before the crime, and is therefore not its result but its motive. It is as if it was a relief to be able to fasten this unconscious sense of guilt on to something real and immediate."
  • "It is easy to show that the ego ideal answers to everything that is expected of the higher nature of man. As a substitute for a longing for the father, it contains the germ from which all religions have evolved."
  • "It only too often yields to the temptation to become sycophantic, opportunist and lying, like a politician who sees the truth but wants to keep his place in popular favour."

― Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id

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Sigmund Freud (Born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 - 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist who became known as the founding father of psychoanalysis. Freud qualified as a doctor of medicine at the University of Vienna in 1881, and then carried out research into cerebral palsy, aphasia and microscopic neuroanatomy at the Vienna General Hospital. He was appointed a university lecturer in neuropathology in 1885 and became a professor in 1902. In creating psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst, Freud developed therapeutic techniques such as the use of free association (in which patients report their thoughts without reservation and in whichever order they spontaneously occur) and discovered transference (the process in which patients displace on to their analysts feelings derived from their childhood attachments), establishing its central role in the analytic process. Freud's redefinition of sexuality to include its infantile forms led him to formulate the Oedipus complex as the central tenet of psychoanalytical theory. His analysis of his own and his patients' dreams as wish-fulfillments provided him with models for the clinical analysis of symptom formation and the mechanisms of repression as well as for elaboration of his theory of the unconscious as an agency disruptive of conscious states of mind. Freud postulated the existence of libido, an energy with which mental processes and structures are invested and which generates erotic attachments, and a death drive, the source of repetition, hate, aggression and neurotic guilt. In his later work Freud drew on psychoanalytic theory to develop a wide-ranging interpretation and critique of religion and culture.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ GENERAL PRESS; 1st edition (January 30, 2020)
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Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 in Moravia; between the ages of four and eighty-two his home was in Vienna: in 1938 Hitler's invasion of Austria forced him to seek asylum in London, where he died in the following year.

His career began with several years of brilliant work on the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system. He was almost thirty when, after a period of study under Charcot in Paris, his interests first turned to psychology, and another ten years of clinical work in Vienna (at first in collaboration with Breuer, an older colleague) saw the birth of his creation, psychoanalysis. This began simply as a method of treating neurotic patients by investigating their minds, but it quickly grew into an accumulation of knowledge about the workings of the mind in general, whether sick or healthy. Freud was thus able to demonstrate the normal development of the sexual instinct in childhood and, largely on the basis of an examination of dreams, arrived at his fundamental discovery of the unconscious forces that influence our everyday thoughts and actions.

Freud's life was uneventful, but his ideas have shaped not only many specialist disciplines, but the whole intellectual climate of the last half-century.

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If I could give 'no stars',I would.I am not complaining abut the content of book but the font used by the publisher is ridiculous.The letters are so small and then the background space(empty space) is so big.i was wondering who got paid for such an atrocious job.I have never seen anything like this.It seemed to me to be akin to some kind of prank.If this book was written properly I would purchase it from another publisher.A altogether terrible job which could have been easily rectified by someone in charge.I have never seen anything like this in my life so I have included pictures to show.
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  • Ankur
    5.0 out of 5 stars Short book on ID, ego, superego
    Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2021
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    The book provides overview of different external factors like fear of death, melancholia, and their relation to ID, ego, and superego. Some of these concepts are difficult to grasp at times but the interplay between different mental faculties and response generated because of different types of stimulus is analyzed in this book, which was interesting.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Freud is cool
    Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2014
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    Good ideas though some words are undefined such as object-cathexis and it was hard for me to determine whether there was a difference between ideal and id.
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  • Zaid Al-Shayeb
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good
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  • Tim Bailey
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good book. Bit confusing.
    Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2023
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    It's Sigmund Freud so unless you understand narcissism fluently, you may struggle understanding some of the topics.
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  • Utkarsh
    3.0 out of 5 stars Difficult but interesting
    Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2023
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    I persevered to get through this but Freud is a difficult read. Maybe it doesn't translate well, but the phrasing and word selection feels unnecessarily complex. Still, some interesting ideas presented thst are worth further exploration and discussion. Don't think I'll be reading direct from the source again though.
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  • Leila
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Ego and the ID
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    I studied Psychiatry and Psychology when trianing to be a nursesonme 35 yers ago so i know about the subject matter. It is about Sigmund Frued the most celebrated Psychiatrist in history next to Jung.who was one of his pupils and confidents. If you want to learn about early human development this is a book to read. Once again it is relatively short for those who can not sustain concentration for a more lengthy book.
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  • Colleen
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good price
    Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2013
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    Required reading for my personality of psychology class. Book was priced well and shipped quick! This is the same book required the cover is just different.
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    If I could give 'no stars',I would.I am not complaining abut the content of book but the font used by the publisher is ridiculous.The letters are so small and then the background space(empty space) is so big.i was wondering who got paid for such an atrocious job.I have never seen anything like this.It seemed to me to be akin to some kind of prank.If this book was written properly I would purchase it from another publisher.A altogether terrible job which could have been easily rectified by someone in charge.I have never seen anything like this in my life so I have included pictures to show.
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    Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2014
    If I could give 'no stars',I would.I am not complaining abut the content of book but the font used by the publisher is ridiculous.The letters are so small and then the background space(empty space) is so big.i was wondering who got paid for such an atrocious job.I have never seen anything like this.It seemed to me to be akin to some kind of prank.If this book was written properly I would purchase it from another publisher.A altogether terrible job which could have been easily rectified by someone in charge.I have never seen anything like this in my life so I have included pictures to show.
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  • Dr Joyita Mazumder
    5.0 out of 5 stars Must read
    Reviewed in India on September 16, 2021
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    One should read it to know oneself
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  • Adrian Akbari
    5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing book
    Reviewed in the Netherlands on January 17, 2020
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    Wow! One of the most amazing books I have ever read. One cannot cast light on psychoanalysis better than Freud. Coming from eastern roots and having read eastern schools of thoughts, I realized Freud explain the soul of religions in a western language. Language understandable fpr materialistic culture.
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  • Jennifer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Exciting content
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 21, 2017
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    Great book, note that it is quite thin but filled with great Freudian content! The language is quite advanced and complex but great for Psychology students.
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  • Dylan Ruth
    5.0 out of 5 stars Only good things to be said
    Reviewed in Canada on May 20, 2016
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    Got here quick and if you know anything about Freud you'll know that you're in for an enriching read.
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  • Gareth Mason
    5.0 out of 5 stars The more you read on this subject the better you will understand the states of the mind
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 8, 2019
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    Not a bad little book considering the size of it, packed with some good guidance. The more you read on this subject the better you will understand the states of the mind, keep reading the book every so often and you will learn it also unconsciously and will be amazed at how much you understand, of it when you pick it up again. That is how our minds work...
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