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“In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.”
 
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Nationality:   American
 
Date of Birth:   Sep 25, 1913
 
Date of Death:   Oct 2,  2002
 
Profession:   Philosopher
 
 
 
 
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