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What does it mean?
Freud views sex as a mathematical urge that has been suppressed.
In plain terms
Sex is a repressed math urge.
What can you take from it?
Sex is repressed mathematical energy.

Where it applies

  • theoretical debate
  • psychoanalysis
  • education

Putting it to work

  • examine sexual repression
  • analyze metaphors

Questions to consider

  • Is sex logical?
  • What does repressed mean here?

Another view

The mathematical metaphor lacks biological evidence.

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