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“Freud, with the interpretation of dreams applied to his patients, is come to see them in the presence of sexual desires dating back to childhood. Through analysis of their dreams, rebuilding its past removed and the resistance against it, he has also come to discover that there are already in childhood want to have their parents object, a mythical representation of this date is by the events of Oedipus, the protagonist of some tragedies by Sophocles, that without realizing it marries his...”
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“Freud was an idot. His early essays are interesting, but by the time I got to his dream interpretation stuff, I thought what the hell, modern pyschology is built on his foundations? Is he serious about his dabbling in the anthropology of taboos? Is he just making shit up as he goes along? Probably. Read it to gain a bit of insight into western "civilization" but don't look for insights into the "soul".”
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