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Quotation from The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud
“The tension between the demands of conscience and the actual attainments of the ego is experienced as a sense of guilt”
The Ego and the Id, Ch. III, 'The Ego and the Super-Ego (Ego-Ideal)', trans. Joan Riviere (1927)
Freud's definition of guilt within the structural model, given just after he derives conscience from the authority of parents and teachers.
Citation: "The tension between the demands of conscience and the actual attainments of the ego is experienced as a sense of guilt" — 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-q6)
