Freud is often falsely accused of instructing his patients to give free reign to their unconscious impulses. While it is true he felt that an excessive inhibitory attitude towards the sɛҳuąƖ instinct was undesirable, it is oft forgot that he held this view because such a repressive attitude only served to enhance the subjective value of sɛҳuąƖ drives. As a matter of fact, he tells us that love in the wider sense suffers when there are but few barriers in the way of sɛҳuąƖ gratification.
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