"Moreover, the act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety."
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The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), in a footnote Freud added to the Second Edition in 1909 (see Psychoanalytic Pioneers, p. 46.)
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