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A Note on Freud's Reaction to the Music of His National Anthem

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Journal of Poetry Therapy

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Associations to music contain an unconscious ethnic variable. Reik's anecdote about Freud being moved by Haydn's melody of the Austrian national anthem is illustrative.

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de Chumaceiro, C.L.D. A Note on Freud's Reaction to the Music of His National Anthem. Journal of Poetry Therapy 15, 79–81 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014715131766

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