“I have never heard you complain: "You promote me to be the future master of myself and the world, but you don't tell me how one is to be the master of oneself, and you don't tell me the mistakes in my thinking and my actions."”

Listen, Little Man! (1948)

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Austrian-American psychoanalyst 1897–1957

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