Who Is Sigmund Freud In The Early 1920's

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In the early era of the 1920’s there was a man named Sigmund Freud that came up with a new theory of how to manipulate a human’s mind. Freud discovered forces hidden deep inside the mind to all the human beings in the world. However, soon enough all that will turn into a disaster. Once people with power knew about Freud’s theory, they used that as a weapon in order to control the democracy, in the early 1920’s. Therefore, the humans with power soon enough started to use Freud's theory to try and control crowds of 1,000 people or more. In fact, in the 1914 the Austria-Hungary war broke out, at this time Freud knew that violence would happen according to his theory. Most people didn’t know how to stop the violence that was going on. Unfortunately,

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