Poor Sigmund Freud. Everyone seems to have an opinion about him and it’s usually negative - or perhaps this relates more to the people I work with. I can’t say I’m a particular fan of Freudian ideas but I try to be charitable and place both the man and his contributions in a historical context. In this way, I feel, it is possible to acknowledge the forces that shaped his thinking and which ultimately sparked a series of intellectual endeavours to try and refine our understanding of the...
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