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- ↑ S Freud, Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (PFL 1) p. 205-6
- ↑ S Freud, New Introductory Lectures of Psychoanalysis (PFL 2) p. 107
- ↑ O Fenichel, Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis (London 1946) p. 217
- ↑ P Gay, Reading Freud (Yale 1990) p. 144
- ↑ E Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan (Cambridge 2005) p. 271
- ↑ J Lacan, Ecrits (London 1997) p. 60
