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To assert that morality is self-evident and that one had
never done a mean thing are strangely revealing statements to
come from the lips of a person whose object of study was man,
himself included. It reflects, I believe, Freud's unshakable
determination to be a moralist in the guise of a scientist.¹⁰ In
this endeavor, he succeeded only too well: as a crypto-
moralist, Freud became the founder of a sort of secular reli-
gion which has had immense influence on popular contempo-
rary thought and life. [...]

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