The unconscious is the true psychical reality; in its innermost nature it is as much unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is as incompletely presented by the data of consciousness as is the external world by the communications of our sense organs.
— Sigmund Freud Modern

Psychoanalysis

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From 'The Interpretation of Dreams'

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1899

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Controversial

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