Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
1920s, The Ego and the Id (1923)
“Wisdom is passionless. But faith by contrast is what Kierkegaard calls a passion.”
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 53e
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