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Mourning and Melancholia

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Totemin Taboo - A Psychobiographical Review

I find this to be a very performative text too, in that i think freud is really struggling with himself. And we know totemin taboo was inspired by yung, and case too. So the whole fascination with the narsisism and psychosis, like freud really felt like for that, he got like new wings from a certain influence that came from young. He kind of gave too much credit to young and thought that it was coming from him, but i don't think it was.

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