The aim of psychoanalysis is to strengthen the ego, to make it more independent of the super-ego, to widen its field of perception and enlarge its organization, so that it can appropriate fresh portions of the id. Where id was, there ego shall be. It is a work of culture—not unlike the draining of the Zuider Zee.
— Sigmund Freud Modern

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New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

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1933

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Strange & Unusual

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https://books.google.com/books?id=8t4zDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT19

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