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- proper noun literal transcription of Freud’s German-language
psychological term “Ich”, more often termed ego in English. Seeego .
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Examples
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Jazz singers seemed to love Donaldson's songs more than anybody—Billie Holiday asked "Did I Remember?" and Ella Fitzgerald even sang "You're Driving Me Crazy" in German "Ich fuhle mich crazy".
The Jazz Scene: Pay Attention to the Words Will Friedwald 2012
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Almost totally blind, Margarete Susman died in Zürich on January 16, 1966, shortly after completing her memoirs, entitled Ich habe viele leben gelebt (I have lived many lives).
Margarete Susman. 2009
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Fraulein Hedwig's favourite song was called Ich liebe dich, I love you; and one evening after she had sung this, when Philip was standing with her on the balcony, looking at the stars, it occurred to him to make some remark about it.
Of Human Bondage 1919
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Hedwig's favourite song was called Ich liebe dich, I love you; and one evening after she had sung this, when Philip was standing with her on the balcony, looking at the stars, it occurred to him to make some remark about it.
Of Human Bondage 1915
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The Face of Fu Manchu (1965) ... aka Ich, Dr. Fu Man Chu (West Germany) ... aka The Mask of Fu Manchu
Home Theater Forum 2010
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The psalm settings range from the rather simple tricinia of the 1588 collection where they alternate with similar settings by his son Rudolph to the great six-part psalm-motets such as Ich ruff zu dir, using paraphrased and cantus-firmus versions of the borrowed melodies, in the French–German volume of 1590.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009
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Approximately one-eighth [52] of Gerhardt's hymns begin with "Ich," while not one of Luther's begins this way.
Paul Gerhardt as a Hymn Writer and his Influence on English Hymnody 1976
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"Ich" (I) is not yet said, but if I ask "Who is 'me'?" then the child names himself with his own name, as he does in general.
The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. William T. Preyer 1869
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The word "Ich" (I) made its appearance in the thirtieth month.
The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. William T. Preyer 1869
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He has fallen down and worshipped that miserable 'Ich' of his, and made that, and not God's will, the centre and root of his philosophy, his poetry, and his self-idolizing æsthetics; and when it fails him, then for prussic acid, and nonentity.
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847
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