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| The ego strives after pleasure and seeks to avoid unpleasure. |
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| Sigmund Freud - "The Psychical Apparatus and the Theory of Instincts" |
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| The power of the id expresses the true purpose of the individual organism's life. |
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| Sigmund Freud - "The Psychical Apparatus and the Theory of Instincts" |
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| In its widest possible sense, however, a man's Self is the sum total of all that he CAN call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house, his wife and children, his ancestors and friends, his reputation and works, his lands and horses, and yacht and bank-account. |
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| William James - "The Self and Its Selves" |
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| Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. ... To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I seldom answer a word. |
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| W.E.B Du Bois - "Double-Consciousness and the Veil." |
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| The following factors about the stranger are intended to suggest how factors of repulsion and distance work to create a form of being togerher, a form of union based on interaction. |
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| Georg Simmel - "The Stranger" |
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| It is the characteristic of the self as an object to itself that I want to bring out. This characteristic is represented in the word "self," which is a reflexive, and indicates that which can be both subject and object. |
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| George Herbert Mead - "The Self, the I, and the Me" |
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