"At first the analysing physician could do no more than discover the unconscious material that was concealed from the patient, put it together, and, at the right moment, communicate it to him. Psychoanalysis was then first and foremost an art of interpreting. Since this did not solve the therapeutic problem, a further aim quickly came in view: to oblige the patient to confirm the analyst's construction from his own memory."

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Source: Sigmund Freud, Philip Rieff (1997). “Sexuality and The Psychology of Love”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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Sigmund Freud

Neurologist, Psychoanalyst

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, known for his theories on the unconscious mind and human sexuality.

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