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Freud in Focus 4: Episode 1

Freud Museum London: Psychoanalysis Podcasts

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Freud's Comparison of Psychoanalysis and Archaeology

Freud compares psychoanalysis to archaeology in a passage from the 23rd edition of his book, The Descent into Sensory Perception. He says both are dealing with something that has been destroyed and buried but is still alive. Both have an undisputed right to reconstruct by means of supplementing and combining the surviving remains," he writes.

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