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Sigmund Freud

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Born 1856 in Příbor · Died 1939 in London

essayist · Austrian Empire, Cisleithania, Austria

Notable works: The Interpretation of Dreams, Civilization and Its Discontents, Totem and Taboo, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, The Ego and the Id

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The Interpretation of Dreams

From Project Gutenberg e-text #66048 (public domain in the USA).

It is a psychic phenomenon of full value, and indeed the fulfilment of a wish; it takes its place in the concatenation of the waking psychic actions which are intelligible to us, and it has been built up by a highly complicated intellectual activity.

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The whole theory that the dream is the fulfilment of a wish is contained in these sentences.

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Civilization and Its Discontents

From Project Gutenberg e-text #78221 (public domain in the USA).

We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love-object or its love.

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Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics

From Project Gutenberg e-text #41214 (public domain in the USA).

“In the beginning was the deed”.

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