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But the civilized joke against a person allows us to satisfy our hatred of and
hostility against him just as the civilized dirty joke allows us to satisfy our
repressed sexual urges . Freud continues : Since we have been obliged to
renounce the ...
But the civilized joke against a person allows us to satisfy our hatred of and
hostility against him just as the civilized dirty joke allows us to satisfy our
repressed sexual urges . Freud continues : Since we have been obliged to
renounce the ...
Page 66
Unfortunately this meant that he was given the kind of education which
completely addled his fairly good brain and destroyed every chance of his
becoming a rational person . Literature , art , poetry , music , history , mathematics
, science were ...
Unfortunately this meant that he was given the kind of education which
completely addled his fairly good brain and destroyed every chance of his
becoming a rational person . Literature , art , poetry , music , history , mathematics
, science were ...
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persons had to come through me and practically the only person whom he would
ever actually see was myself . If anyone came for an interview , they had to see
me and , if they wanted to go beyond me to him , they had to put what they ...
persons had to come through me and practically the only person whom he would
ever actually see was myself . If anyone came for an interview , they had to see
me and , if they wanted to go beyond me to him , they had to put what they ...
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| Title | Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2 Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Leonard Woolf Volume 2 of Woolf, Leonard: An autobiography of the years |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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