“I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality... I expect it to provide all further enlightenment.”

— Sigmund Freud

Letter to Wilhelm Fliess (25 March 1898)
1890s

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Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psycho… 1856–1939

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