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“Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.”

Way Giving Doe Impossible Ego Patient Reactions One Way Analysis Psychoanalysis

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“I was well aware of that when I heard they were remaking 'Total Recall.' My first reaction was: 'Ewww, really okay?' And the director said you should really look at it, the script is good. I had already done a remake. I had just finished 'Fright Night.' When I heard about that being remade, I had a whole ego thing... remake?. 'That is so uncool! I loved the original, I can't possibly do that.”

Should Firsts Wells Looks Said I Can Done Whole Night Heard Directors Ego Okay Originals Scripts Finished Reactions Recalls Fright Remakes Uncool Total Recall

Author:Colin Farrell

“In the end, self-indulgence is very much about your ego and your vanity and your own id. The more you can indulge in it, the more pleasurable it becomes. And then when it feeds out, it's able to penetrate the mind and create a reaction.”

Mind Ends Self Able Ego Reactions Vanity Indulge Penetrate Indulgence Indulge In Self Indulgence

Author:Nicolas Winding Refn

“That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction.”

Trying Beautiful Spiritual Sports Pay Attention Lessons Ego Reactions Pay Attention Boxing Motivational Sports Beautiful Things

Author:David O. Russell

“The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved emotions that are the body's reaction to what the voice in the head is saying.”

Mind Body Spiritual Voice Emotion Ego Reactions Be You

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is saying, 'I cannot believe that person just lit me up - how humiliating.”

People Believe Persons Fighting Half Ego Reactions Lit Humiliating

Author:David O. Russell

“When I see an object there is no will; when its sensations are carried to the brain, there comes the reaction, which says "Do this", or "Do not do this", and this state of the ego-substance is what is called will”

States Brain Objects Ego Reactions Substance Sensations

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Non-reaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but also of dissolving the collective human ego.”

Way Humans Ego Reactions Collectives Dissolving

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose