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Psychoanalytic Theory and Metapsychology

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Repression and Unconscious Processes

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Psychoanalytic Dream Theory

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Personality Theory (General)

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Boag, S. (2017). Boag, Simon. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_2135-1

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