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Title: the fundemental flaw; the book fails
Review: to credit what is said in this book, one has to believe in certain premises of Freud which have been profoundly discredited by Masson and many 21st century scholars who have proven that Freud falsified his materials on childhood sexuality, and on his assertions regarding parent child incest in particular. Freud infantalizes the human being, scorning the breathtaking gifts of the human for instead seeing the human, like himself, as a bundle of Victorian/ Viennese repressions and fuedalisms. If the author had stated his opinions, and they are opinions, not facts... his supposings about ancient humans are rank speculation at best for instance... and not built them on Freud's passe notions which are ungrounded and unproven, the book would have been credible at least as the author's imaginings about what might have been/occured/ been structured in human psyches long ago.
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