The Question of Lay Analysis

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The Question of Lay Analysis
The German edition
AuthorSigmund Freud
Original titleDie Frage der Laienanalyse
LanguageGerman

The Question of Lay Analysis (

Theodore Reik
's being prosecuted for being a non-medical, or lay, analyst in Austria.

It is in this book that Freud compares the sexual life of adult women to a "dark continent":

We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult females is a dark continent [original in English][1][2] for psychology.[3]

References

  1. ISBN 0-14193754-8. Quote. {{cite book}}: External link in |quote= (help
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  2. ^ (in German) See occurrences on Google Books.
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