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Quotation from The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud
“we see this same ego as a poor creature owing service to three masters and consequently menaced by three several dangers: from the external world, from the libido of the id, and from the severity of the super-ego”
The Ego and the Id, Ch. V, 'The Subordinate Relationships of the Ego', trans. Joan Riviere (1927)
The counterweight to Freud's hope that analysis extends the ego's conquest of the id: the ego is also a harried mediator with three kinds of anxiety.
Citation: "we see this same ego as a poor creature owing service to three masters and consequently menaced by three several dangers: from the external world, from the libido of the id, and from the severity of the super-ego" — Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id, Ch. V, 'The Subordinate Relationships of the Ego', trans. Joan Riviere (1927). (id freud-the-ego-and-the-id-q10)
