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Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It is the result of the conflict between our instincts and our culture.

Sigmund Freud

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Sigmund Freud
Age: 83 †
Born: 1856
Born: May 6
Died: 1939
Died: September 23
Essayist
Neurologist
Philosopher
Psychiatrist
Psychoanalyst
Psychologist
Freiberg
Sigismund Schlomo Freud
Freud
Results
Reverence
Disagreeable
Culture
Habits
Civilisation
Instinct
Ecology
Lack
Adjustment
Complicated
Incomplete
Result
Instincts
Engendered
Conflict
Deceit
Mans
Habit
Cowardice
Idiosyncrasies

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