He was like a cock, who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

George Eliot

Adam Bede

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Narcissists Narcissism

Speaker

Mr. Irwine

Author

George Eliot

Source

Adam Bede

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1859 1850s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Eliot, George. Adam Bede. Edinburgh/London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1859, ch. 33.

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Eliot, George. Adam Bede, edited by Carol A. Martin. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 33.

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Source
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Genre
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Time
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Original Citation

Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of the Species. London: John Murray, 1859, ch. 4.

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Darwin, Charles. The Origin of the Species, edited by William Bynum. Penguin, 2009, ch. 4.

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Charles Darwin
Source
On the Origin of the Species
Genre
Scientific literature
Language
English
Time
1859 1850s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of the Species. London: John Murray, 1859, ch. 3.

Current Citation

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The ego's relation to the id might be compared with that of a rider to his horse. The horse supplies the locomotive energy, while the rider has the privilege of deciding on the goal and of guiding and powerful animal's movement. But only too often there arises between the ego and the id the not precisely ideal situation of the rider being obliged to guide the horse along the path by which it itself wants to go.

Sigmund Freud

New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

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Sigmund Freud
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New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
Genre
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Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
German
Time
1933 1930s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Freud, Sigmund. New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, translated by James Strachey. W. W. Norton & Company, 1990, lecture 31. Originally published as Neue Folge der Vorlesungen zur Einfuhrung in die Psychoanalyse [New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis]. Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1933, lecture 31.