“Melancholia for Freud is the relationship that the subject takes up with respect to itself from the position of what he calls conscience or what he later calls the super-ego. And that can be lacerated - if you think of the anorexic who sees themselves from the perspective of the image they have, of the image they have of themselves in the mirror which is false - that would be the super-ego. Super-ego is what generates depression and it is what has to be dealt with in psychoanalysis.” IfsThinkingWould BeSubjectsPositionPerspectiveEgoConscienceMirrorsPsychoanalysisAnorexics Author:Simon Critchley
“If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat.” IfsShouldBelieveLittlesHumorFunnyI BelieveGrowsFrontsHealthEgoEatingMirrorsClubsWork OutHealth CareMusclesPsychiatrist Author:Lewis Black
“Whoever wants the "I" to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must stop the little ego's fascination with its own image.” WantLittlesSecretEgoMirrorsMysteriousYieldFascination Book:The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The ego. From birth to rebirth Source: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The ego. From birth to rebirth
“of all the unusual features of Stargirl, this struck me as the most remarkable. Bad things did not stick to her. Correction: her bad things did not stick to her. If we were hurt, if we were unhappy or otherwise victimized by life, she seemed to know about it, and to care, as soon as we did. But bad things falling on her -- unkind words, nasty stares, foot blisters -- she seemed unaware of. I never saw her look in a mirror, never heard her complain. All of her feelings, all of her attentions flowed outward. She had no ego.” IfsKnowsLooksFeelingsCareFallHurtAttentionSawsHeardFeetEgoMirrorsSticksComplainingUnhappyStaringFeaturesRemarkableBad ThingsUnusualNastyCorrectionsUnkindBlistersStargirlUnkind Words Author:Jerry Spinelli
“Let somebody insult you and see that that you do not answer back. Just see it, not to get into temper. Try that your ego doesn't react. That can be achieved very easily if you try in the mirror, look at yourself and laugh at yourself, make fun of yourself.” IfsLoveTryingLooksWisdomSpiritFunAnswersLaughingMeditationEgoYogaMirrorsWellnessInsultTemperLook At YourselfLaugh At YourselfInsults You Author:Nirmala Srivastava
“With your ego you cannot know. Only in an egolessness, in a deep abyss, in the absence of the ego, does the perception happen - then you become a mirror. With the ego you will always interpret, you cannot know the truth. With the ego you will always be there interpreting in subtle ways, and your interpretation is not the truth. You are the medium of all falsification. Through you everything becomes false. When you are not there, the true reflects.” KnowsWayDoeHappensSpiritualityBeliefEgoPerceptionMirrorsAbsenceMediumsManifestationSubtleInterpretationAbyssInterpretingFalsification Author:Rajneesh
“The great corrupter of public men is the ego - corrupter because distracter. Wealth, sensuality, power cannot hold a candle to it. Looking in the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.” MenProblemAttentionEgoMadnessMirrorsAlter EgoMale EgoBig EgoEgo Problem Author:Dean Acheson