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Sigmund Freud's
ground-breaking book Die Traumdeutung
(Interpretation of Dreams) was fated to become the
founding document of psychoanalysis. Freud was the
first to valorize the unconscious as playing a
fundamental role in human psychic existence. For
Freud, the unconscious was a form of super-memory,
an absolute mnemonic storehouse that records all
the empirical and mental experiences of the
individual. These "repressed" memories could be
called up by simple events, experiences, dreams, or
fantasies. Freud believed that the chronic
repression of certain memories stored in the
unconscious was responsible for psychological
pathologies, and that the elevation of these
memories from the unconscious to the conscious mind
could effect a cure of these psychic
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