Word: traumdeutung
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...girls reported similar dreams about their mothers, he formulated his concept of the Oedipus Complex,* which holds that all youngsters-in some small degree at least -unconsciously hate parents of the same sex, are erotically attracted to parents of the opposite sex. Thirty-three years have passed since Die Traumdeutung was published. Today Sigmund Freud, ill and old (77), almost never emerges from the seclusion of his curio-filled Vienna home. His work has been honored, but it has also been severely criticized. Many a onetime disciple has drifted away, revising, overhauling, stripping the flesh from the impregnable skeleton...
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