{"id":6252,"date":"2019-03-28T10:41:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T15:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aleroy.com\/blog\/?p=6252"},"modified":"2019-03-28T10:41:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T15:41:33","slug":"sigmund-freud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aleroy.com\/blog\/archives\/6252\/sigmund-freud","title":{"rendered":"Sigmund Freud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sigmund Freud wrote many books. I found &#8220;Totem and Taboo&#8221; in a used book store and quickly purchased it. It was the last of his books that I hadn&#8217;t read. When I got home, I found an old, yellowed newspaper clipping in the back. The clipping was an interview of Dr. Freud by one of the staff reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Freud was very popular, and the &#8220;in&#8221; crowd of socialites would often quote and discuss his work at their parties. They were called Freudians. 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