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I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us.

Sigmund Freud

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