Sublime

The ego in the Freudian story – ourselves as we prefer to be seen – is like a picture with a frame around it, and the function of the frame is to keep the picture intact.

By combining Husserl's ideas and the ideas behind Gestalt psychology, Gurwitsch came to reject the notion of an ego as a phenomenological datum and saw the 'I' instead as a chain of experiences.

our words become conscious responses based firmly on awareness of what we are perceiving, feeling, and wanting.

Treatment must feel respectful and meaningful, and be nondirective: it must be improvised, by both client and practitioner.

Words can come if one’s attention on the bodily feeling is maintained.

The ego cannot add deep feelings and a deep flavor to living. Nor can it produce profound and creative wisdom. The ego can only memorize, learn, collect other people’s creative knowledge, repeat, and copy. It is equipped to remember, to sort out, to select, to make up the mind, to move in a certain direction —outward or inward. These are its functi

conceptualized self is your ego—your stories about who you are and who others are in relation to you.

human life consists primarily and originally in action–in living in the concrete world of “suchness.” But we have the power to control action by reflection, that is, by thinking, by comparing the actual world with memories or “reflections.” Memories are organized in terms of more or less abstract images–words, signs, simplified shapes, and other sy