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Freud the philosopher

20 mins | Sep 21, 2017

Sigmund Freud questioned the world and uncovered new ways of knowing, but was he a philosopher? David Livingstone Smith considers the first psychoanalyst’s virtues as a deep and influential thinker who broke the spell of mind-body dualism.

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