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On th eother hand, he opposed Charcot's attempts to explain all [[hysterical]] [[symptoms]] by reference to lesions in the brain, distinguished psychical reality from material reality, and constantly emphasized the role of experience rather than hereditary in the aetiology of nervous illness.
<blockquote>Analysts are at bottom incorrigble mechanists and materialists, even though they seek to avoid robbing the mind and spirit of their still unrecognized characteristics.<ref>Freud. {{F}} 1941d. (1921). [[SE ]] XVIII p.179</ref></blockquote>
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