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Sigmund Freud on AI

2 quotes from Sigmund Freud on the wall, 1930, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag.

  1. Man has become a kind of prosthetic God

    Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis in Vienna, on tools and machines as extensions of human organs in Das Unbehagen in der Kultur (Civilization and Its Discontents), 1930. Translated from German.

    Internationaler Psychoanalytischer VerlagDas Unbehagen in der Kultur

  2. Present-day man does not feel happy in his Godlikeness

    Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis in Vienna, closing his passage on technical progress in Das Unbehagen in der Kultur (Civilization and Its Discontents), 1930, after calling man a kind of prosthetic god. Translated from German.

    Internationaler Psychoanalytischer VerlagDas Unbehagen in der Kultur

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