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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
I don't place much stock in Freudian psychoanalysis. Freud deserves credit for getting people to think in new ways about mental illness and for bringing it out of the closet, but his theories were pretty shaky in my opinion. There's more to human beings than simply the sex drive, and I don't think the Oedipus complex plays as big a role in human behavior as he does.
Neither do I accept the metaphysical underpinnings of the world's sacred texts, but I find things of value in all of them.
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