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Quotation from The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud
“the character of the ego is a precipitate of abandoned object-cathexes and that it contains a record of past object-choices”
The Ego and the Id, Ch. III, 'The Ego and the Super-Ego (Ego-Ideal)', trans. Joan Riviere (1927)
Generalizing from melancholia, Freud proposes that we become partly what we have loved and lost, through identification.
Citation: "the character of the ego is a precipitate of abandoned object-cathexes and that it contains a record of past object-choices" — Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id, Ch. III, 'The Ego and the Super-Ego (Ego-Ideal)', trans. Joan Riviere (1927). (id freud-the-ego-and-the-id-q5)
