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The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.

The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.

Sigmund Freud
Passion, Ego, Sanity
Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion - in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my tyrant, and in his service I know no limits. My tyrant is psychology. It has always been my distant, beckoning goal and now since I have hit upon the neuroses, it has come so much the nearer.

Sigmund Freud
Horse, Passion, Men
Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Fliess (1957). “The Origins of Psychoanalysis: Letters, Drafts and Notes to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1902”

I have often felt as though I had inherited all the defiance and all the passions with which our ancestors defended their Temple and could gladly sacrifice my life for one great moment in history. And at the same time I always felt so helpless and incapable of expressing these ardent passions even by a word or a poem.

Sigmund Freud
Passion, Sacrifice, Temples
Sigmund Freud, Ernst L. Freud (1960). “Letters of Sigmund Freud”, p.202, Courier Corporation

The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from the analytic level; outside the analysis, against opponents who dispute the importance he attaches to the sexual instinctual forces and hinder him from making use of them in his scientific technique; and inside the analysis, against his patients, who at first behave like opponents but later on reveal the overvaluation of sexual life which dominates them, and who try to make him captive to their socially untamed passion.

Sigmund Freud
Passion, Mind, Battle
Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1958). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: The case of Schreber, papers on technique and other works”

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