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You then turn to your father
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and love your father
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because your father has a penis,
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so he's a sort of penis substitute.
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You reject your mother,
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who's equally unworthy due to her penis lack,
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and that shapes your psychosexual development.
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Now, if that's the sort of thing you know about Freud,
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you are not going to have a very high opinion of him or of his work,
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but at the core of Freud's declamation,
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the more interesting ideas,
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is a set of claims of a man's intellectual importance.