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=Freudian Dictionary=
<blockquote>The great majority work only when forced by necessity, and this natural human aversion to work gives rise to the most difficult social problems.<ref>{{C&D}} Ch. 2</ref></blockquote>
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In its general sense, the word work denotes an expenditure of energy by a system or organism that produces an effect or transformation. In psychoanalysis, mental work is taken to mean any activity of the psychical apparatus that is designed to deal with instinctual excitations.
