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The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world.

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
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World
Psychoanalysis
Whatsoever
Irish
Already
Race
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Dream

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