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Quotation from The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud
“When we were little children we knew these higher natures, we admired them and feared them; and later we took them into ourselves”
The Ego and the Id, Ch. III, 'The Ego and the Super-Ego (Ego-Ideal)', trans. Joan Riviere (1927)
Freud's reply to critics who say psychoanalysis ignores man's higher, moral side: the higher nature is the internalized parents.
Citation: "When we were little children we knew these higher natures, we admired them and feared them; and later we took them into ourselves" — 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-q7)
