Sigmund Freud — "The aim of psychoanalysis is to strengthen the ego, to make it more independent …"
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.