Freud

Definitions

1. A surname from German.
2. Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist, psychotherapist, and founder of psychoanalysis.

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Examples

“To assert that morality is self-evident and that one had never done a mean⟳ thing are strangely revealing statements to come⟳ from the lips of a person whose object of study⟳ was man, himself included. It reflects, I believe⟳, Freud's unshakable determination to be a moralist in the guise of a scientist. In this endeavor, he succeeded only too well: as a cryptomoralist, Freud became the founder of a sort⟳ of secular religion which has had immense influence⟳ on popular contemporary thought and life. [...]”

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