[first lines] Repression. Repression if the father of neurosis, of…

[first lines] Repression. Repression if the father of neurosis, of self-hatred. Now, stress results when we fight against our impulses. We’ve all heard people talk about animal magnetism, the natural man, the noble savage, as if we’d lost something valuable in our long evolution into civilized human beings. Now there’s a good reason for this.

Dr. George Waggner

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