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The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

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Sigmund Freud
Age: 83 †
Born: 1856
Born: May 6
Died: 1939
Died: September 23
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Psychoanalyst
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Sigismund Schlomo Freud
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