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  • “If phantasies become over-luxuriant and overpowerful,” Freud wrote, “the conditions are laid for an onset of neurosis or psychosis.”

    Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008

  • I argue that this struggle comes from a critical forgetting of Elinor, who is alternately dismissed as an "overpowerful ideology that has limited value and that therefore deserves deauthorization"

    Notes on 'Money, Matrimony, and Memory: Secondary Heroines in Radcliffe, Austen, and Cooper' 2006

  • “If phantasies become over-luxuriant and overpowerful,” Freud wrote, “the conditions are laid for an onset of neurosis or psychosis.”

    Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008

  • “If phantasies become over-luxuriant and overpowerful,” Freud wrote, “the conditions are laid for an onset of neurosis or psychosis.”

    Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008

  • “If phantasies become over-luxuriant and overpowerful,” Freud wrote, “the conditions are laid for an onset of neurosis or psychosis.”

    Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008

  • “If phantasies become over-luxuriant and overpowerful,” Freud wrote, “the conditions are laid for an onset of neurosis or psychosis.”

    Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008

  • “If phantasies become over-luxuriant and overpowerful,” Freud wrote, “the conditions are laid for an onset of neurosis or psychosis.”

    Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008

  • “If phantasies become over-luxuriant and overpowerful,” Freud wrote, “the conditions are laid for an onset of neurosis or psychosis.”

    Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008

  • “If phantasies become over-luxuriant and overpowerful,” Freud wrote, “the conditions are laid for an onset of neurosis or psychosis.”

    Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008

  • Overall, the thrust of the law was promotional, though from time to time there were serious moves to cut down the overpowerful to size.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

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