Civilization and Its Discontents (Kindle Edition)

by Sigmund Freud

At its height, the state of being in love threatens to obliterate the boundaries between ego and object. Against all the evidence of his senses, the man in love declares that he and his beloved are one, and is prepared to behave as if it were a fact.

parts of a man’s own body, even component parts of his own mind, perceptions, thoughts, feelings, appear to him alien and not belonging to himself; other cases in which a man ascribes to the external world things that clearly originate in himself, and that ought to be acknowledged by him.

When the infant at the breast receives stimuli, he cannot as yet distinguish whether they come from his ego or from the outer world.

abolish or avoid.

When we realize there is an "other" we avoid it. Is this disgust?

The tendency arises to dissociate from the ego everything which can give rise to pain, to cast it out and create a pure pleasure-ego, in contrast to a threatening outside, not-self.