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" A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out. "
Saul Bellow
Stone
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" Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand. "
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