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Quotation from The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud
“The ego is first and foremost a body-ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but it is itself the projection of a surface”
The Ego and the Id, Ch. II, 'The Ego and the Id', trans. Joan Riviere (1927)
Freud grounds the ego in the experience of the body, noting that painful illness teaches us about our organs, and compares it to the anatomists' cortical homunculus.
Citation: "The ego is first and foremost a body-ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but it is itself the projection of a surface" — Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id, Ch. II, 'The Ego and the Id', trans. Joan Riviere (1927). (id freud-the-ego-and-the-id-q4)
