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We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus.

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