Best Superego Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“[He] seemed to possess, beneath it all, an immutable sense of self-assurance, but in addition to that, the look of a man ensnared by what he perceived to be his own Duty. A Duty that effervesced inside of him impatiently, dry at the mouth, shaking feverishly, and holding its breath in anticipation for—not his action, but in fact—the fruits of his actions, however distant these may have been. The goal was to satiate its thirst in as few moves as possible, instilling each action with an almost implied necessity for having a motive by which it must exist, which is to say that no action was to be wasted for anything, but only for that which was rooted in some definable and clear-cut purpose...Every action had to be a step in some direction and there could be no dillydallying, for Duty bubbling in the bloodstream for too long brought with it a kind of sickness...from which it was difficult to recover. Neither could there be any reconsideration, for the values to which one has sworn were unassailable and beyond the powers of one individual to reassess. And so, Duty, once instilled, must be allowed to carry on unabated, diverting sustenance away from other aspects of one’s character—driving them to a weakened state, brow-beaten by circumstances beyond their immediate control and relegated to their own downtrodden acquiescence to the bravado of the Parasitic Superego, and, as such, cognizant of their growing superfluity.”

Duty Obedience Individualism Self Deception Selfless Service Blind Faith Parasite Superego Intellectual Laziness Milgram Parasitic Superego Browbeaten

Book:Don't Forget to Breathe

Source: Don't Forget to Breathe

“The parents' failure to serve as models of disciplined self-restraint or to restrain the child does not mean that the child grows up without a superego. On the contrary, it encourages the development of a harsh and punitive superego based largely on archaic images of the parents, fused with grandiose self-images. Under these conditions, the superego consists of parental introjects instead of identifications. It holds up to the ego an exalted standard of fame and success and condemns it with savage ferocity when it falls short of that standard. Hence the oscillations of self-esteem so often associated with pathological narcissism.”

Discipline Parenting Narcissism Superego

Book:The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

Source: The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

“Membayangkan Surga Apa yang kau lihat di layar yang berpendar ini, Kay? Serupa senja yang tumbuh dari sebatang pohon di sebuah tempat yang kau bayangkan seperti surga. Cahaya lampu itu menyapu wajahmu dengan warna lembayung dan berkilau seperti pelangi. Tapi tak ada apa pun kutemukan pada seri wajahmu selain nafsu yang tertahan dan seulas senyum kemesuman. Tepat di puncak penantian dari segala perhatian yang tertuju pada dirimu. Mata yang tak pernah menyadari tersesat dalam raga belia yang entah milik siapa. Aura kemudaan yang berasa sia-sia. Telah kau reguk semua kebahagiaan dari ekspresi wajah tolol yang ditunggangi oleh nafsu alter egonya. Atau barangkali, telah habis kau hirup wangi kelopak mawar hitam yang tumbuh di ranjangmu setiap pagi. Sudah lama sekali rasanya waktu berlalu. Seperti ketika, kau masih suka nongkrong di cafe sambil meneguk cappucino dari cangkir porselen yang perlahan mulai retak. Sementara laju usia mengalir di tenggorakanmu yang bening bagai pualam. Waktu meninggalkan jejak buta di dalam handphonemu. Menyisakan tatap mata orang yang tak lagi mampu menafsirkan apa yang telah engkau lakukan. Bukankah, mereka tak lagi melihatmu sebagaimana adanya dirimu saat ini atau sepuluh tahun dari sekarang? Tak satu pun dari mereka percaya bahwa usiamu belum lewat dua puluh tahun. Siapa mendamba merah muda anggur kirmizi yang tumbuh di dadamu? Tak satu pun telinga sanggup melawan sihir dari gelak tawamu yang getir. Mata bodoh yang tak sanggup melupakan bayangan pisang matang kau kunyah dengan brutal sebagai kudapan di tengah jeda pertunjukan. Hidup tak seperti kecipak ikan di dalam aquarium transparan tertanam di dinding. Air kolam di pekarangan menjelma jadi bayangan jemari tak henti menggapai. Gelembung kekhawatiran yang tak sanggup memahami makna puisi yang sengaja ditulis untuk mengabadikan namamu. Taman yang kau bayangkan itu, Kay bukanlah surga yang sesungguhnya. Di sana tak ada sungai keabadian atau pangeran tampan yang menunggu kehadiranmu dengan kerinduan. Yang ada cuma kelebat kilat dan hujan airmata hitam. Mengucur seperti lendir laknat yang mengalir dari hidungmu saat kau meradang karena influensa. Tak ada satu hal pun yang menyenangkan, Kay. Hanya sedikit tersisa cerita yang busuk dan menjijikkan sebagai satu-satunya obrolan untuk perintang waktu. 2024 - 2025”

Ego Puisi Alter Ego Id Superego Freudian Ilusi Surga Manifestasi Psikoanalisa

Author:Titon Rahmawan

“Western man discovered and colonised the world, then went on to reach for the stars, yet the enemies of the West are intent on sending Western man crawling back to the primitive call of the id. Instant unevolved animalistic pleasure is now the order of the day as the enemies of the West seek to undermine and destroy everything that once imparted the Western superego to the next generation.”

Western Civilization Superego Fall Of The West Western Man Fall Of Western Man

Book:The Fall of Western Man

Source: The Fall of Western Man

“A prisão não está no exterior e, sim, no interior de cada um de nós. É possível que não saibamos viver sem ela.”

Ego Alma Sociedade Id Superego Prisão

Book:Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Source: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“The daimonic refers to the power of nature rather than the superego, and is beyond good and evil. Nor is it man's 'recall to himself' as Heidegger and later Fromm have argued, for its source lies in those realms where the self is rooted in natural forces which go beyond the self and are felt as the grasp of fate upon us. The daimonic arises from the ground of being rather than the self as such.”

Men Self Lying Evil Force Felt Natural Fate Source Arise Realms Good And Evil Rooted Recalls Heidegger Power Of Nature Beyond Good And Evil Fromm Superego

Book:Love and will

Source: Love and will

“The Superego, in censoring the unconscious and in implanting conscience, also censors the censor.”

Conscience Unconscious Censoring Superego

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and a snooze button on her shield.”

Morning Feet Battle Mere Soldier Every Morning Buttons Mud Shields Superego Snooze Button

Author:Catherynne M. Valente

“I've always had a very developed superego. I also had a very powerful id, but there was no ego in the middle. So writing was always like letters sent from the id to the superego, saying, "What's going on here?" What I loved about writing was that I was totally weightless. I was amazed at the fact that I could be myself without being afraid that anyone would get hurt.”

Writing Facts Hurt Powerful Middle Ego Letters Amazed Very Powerful Being Afraid Superego

Author:Etgar Keret

“Animation is capable to go beyond superego defense strategies and touch deep human being contents as no other art expression.”

Humans Art Human Beings Expression Capable Strategy Defense Animation Being Content Superego Art Expression

Author:Luiz Bolognesi

“It doesn’t matter how many years go by, how much therapy I embark on, how much I try to achieve that elusive thing known as perspective, which is supposed to put all past wrongs into their rightful and diminished place, that happy place where all the talk is of lessons learned and inner peace. No one will ever understand the potency of my memories, which are so solid and vivid that I don’t need a psychiatrist to tell me they are driving me crazy. My subconscious has not buried them, my superego has not restrained them. They are front and center, they are going on right now.”

Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

“Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. It enslaves him almost before he has tasted freedom. The 'ologies' will tell you how its done Theology calls it building a conscience or developing a spirit of selflessness. Psychology calls it the growth of the superego. Considering how long society has been at it, you'd expect a better job. But the campaigns have been badly planned and the victory has never been secured.”

Long Has Beens Done Jobs Spirit Individual Growth Psychology Building Victory Conscience Campaigns Theology Developing Helpless Considering Selflessness Secured Better Jobs Superego

Author:B. F. Skinner

“Freud taught us that it wasn't God that imposed judgment on us and made us feel guilty when we stepped out of line. Instead, it was the superego - that idealized concept of what a good person is supposed to be and do - given to us by our parents, that condemned us for what had been hitherto regarded as ungodly behavior.”

Feels Persons Made Given Parent Lines Taught Behavior Judgment Concepts Guilty Supposed To Be Good Person Taught Us Superego

Author:Tony Campolo

“Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations?”

Support Generations Concepts Endure Righteousness Old Time Psychoanalytic Superego

Author:Tony Campolo

“The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three...The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id.”

World Stills Three Poor Masters Demand Ego Claims Harder Psychological Tyrants Harsh Reconcile Superego

Author:Sigmund Freud

“Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.”