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Sigmund Freud

1856–1939

Lived

1856–1939

Place

Vienna

Teacher

Jean-Martin Charcot

In the ninth paragraph

Austrian founder of psychoanalysis. He held that impulses pushed out of awareness live on in the unconscious and shape dreams, slips and neurotic symptoms. In The Future of an Illusion (1927), published shortly before these lectures, he treated religion as an illusion born of human wishes.

Where they appear

9. Psychology and the mystic state · 10. Religion and the sex-impulse

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