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Psychoanalysis as a conceptual system had absorbed a lot of intellectual elements that were present in turn-of-the century Vienna, or more widely the Austro-Hungarian or European cultural atmosphere at that time. Freud, just like Wittgenstein, Musil and a lot of others was a product of his age so he simply accepted a number of ideas that had been present in his environment. For instance the problem of the unconscious was such a concept. It was not discovered by Freud and it was not Freud who found out the existence of unconscious, it was not him who recognized the significance of sexuality, especially the significance of infant sexuality. But it was Freud who was able to create a unique synthesis from all of these elements and it was he who could somehow organize all these different ideological influences and sources into a theraputic movement. So as a possible answer to your question actually it is a myth that Freud thought up psychoanalysis alone or he would have had to fight his battle against a highly resistant society.
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