Wo Es war, soll Ich werden
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"Wo Es war, soll Ich werden" (usually translated as: "where the id was, the ego shall be") is a maxim by Sigmund Freud.
The dictum is found in New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1933), lecture 31, Freud, based on The Ego and the Id.
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- Nevertheless it may be admitted that the therapeutic efforts of psycho-analysis have chosen a similar line of approach. Its intention is, indeed, 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. (Freud XXII 80)
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