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" The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety. "
Sigmund Freud
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" Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew? "
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