Freud
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /fɹɔɪd/
Proper noun
  1. Surname of German origin.
  2. Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist, psychotherapist, and founder of psychoanalysis.
    • To assert that morality is self-evident and that one had never done a mean thing are strangely revealing statements to come from the lips of a person whose object of study was man, himself included. It reflects, I believe, Freud's unshakable determination to be a moralist in the guise of a scientist. In this endeavor, he succeeded only too well: as a cryptomoralist, Freud became the founder of a sort of secular religion which has had immense influence on popular contemporary thought and life. [...]
Translations
  • German: Freud
  • Portuguese: Freud
  • Russian: Фрёйд



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