By placing the desire at the very core of psychoanalysis, Freud not only created the idea that this psychoanalysis should be of a certain kind, that any way of acting is not appropriate here, but he also showed the way of dealing with this desire. The ego-ideal is what pushes psychoanalysts to complain that their colleagues’ modus operandi is not at the level it should be. And they do complain because this is the way Freud himself dealt with the desire inscribed in the condition of psychoanalysis: when he questioned the theoretical research of his followers and their methods of clinical practice, he himself presented a different image of desire.