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Freud's Imagination of a Childhood Memory
Freud is doing a kind of a socratic dialogue with himself, but as I said when we were talking about this earlier, it's more Holmes and Watson. He plays the Holmes and the Watson. And so here's- this is on page 315 of either a hacked copy or a real one. "It seems then that I amalgamated the two sets of fantasies of how my life could have been more comfortable" The element about the Alpine flowers is as it were a stamp, giving the date of manufacture. A feeling tells me though that the scene is genuine. There is in general no guarantee of the data produced by our memory.
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