Transcript: Happy Birthday, Sigmund Freud

HOWARD BERKES
Weekend All Things Considered (NPR)
05-06-2006
Happy Birthday, Sigmund Freud

Host: HOWARD BERKES
Time: 1900-2000

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HOWARD BERKES, host:

We leave you this evening to ponder this. Imagine a world without Sigmund Freud. We would not have our egos, our superegos or our ids. We wouldn't probe the subconscious. We would have non Oedipal complexes, defense mechanisms or libidos. We would never be anal-retentive or masochistic or neurotic. We would not sublimate or repress, we wouldn't experience transference or narcissism. We would not make Freudian slips. Well, we might have and be and do all these things, we just might not realize it. Without Sigmund Freud, we ...

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