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Moving through this. It’s “very interestink” (said in a German psychoanalyst’s accent). Some of Freud’s explanations are really reaching and too reliant upon far fetched wordplay. In other sections it’s very precise, impressively so since he’s talking about the murky inner recesses.

Dense, tricky. Freud’s methods of arguing for certain dream interpretations seem sometimes rather specious. On more than one occasion it comes across as a stubborn point of intellectual pride, how he masters his patients with explanations.