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Quote by Sigmund Freud
A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, e

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist. – Sigmund Freud

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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. – Sigmund Freud

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Freedom
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Sigmund Freud
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No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life. – Sigmund Freud

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Breastfeeding
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Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. – R. D. Laing

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If you get hung up on everybody elses hang-ups, then the whole worlds going to be nothing more than one huge gallows. – Richard Brautigan

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There is no such condition as schizophrenia, but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. – R. D. Laing

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A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made. – Luis Bunuel

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