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"'It is not really a decisive matter whether one has killed one's father or abstained from the deed,' if the function of the conflict and its consequences are the same [in other words, the "father' can stick around as long as he no longer produces "neurosis" in the child (where the child has to do the father's will over and against his own will, "repressing" his carnal nature, "alienating" himself from the world and the world from him)]." (Sigmund Freud as quoted in Herbart Marcuse, Eros and Civilization: A philosophical inquiry into Freud)

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