It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world. For the ego, perception plays the part which in the id falls to instinct. The ego represents what may be called reason and common sense, in contrast to the id, which contains the passions.

Freud, Sigmund: The ego and the id (1923)

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