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Type: Academic/psychological text (likely a book draft or manuscript page included in discovery)
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This document appears to be page 156 of a manuscript or academic text discussing psychoanalytic theory, specifically focused on repetitive, self-destructive behaviors, 'earworms,' and the concept of 'splitting of the ego.' It references works by Sigmund Freud, Mark Twain, and Otto Fenichel. The page bears a House Oversight Committee Bates stamp, indicating it was part of a larger document production, likely related to an investigation involving materials seized or requested from the subject's archives.

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Name Role Context
Sigmund Freud Psychoanalyst
Cited regarding his papers 'Analysis, Terminable and Interminable' and 'Splitting of the Ego in the Process of Defense'.
Mark Twain Author
Cited regarding a story about mental repetition/earworms.
Otto Fenichel Psychoanalyst
Cited regarding his work 'Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis'.

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House Oversight Committee
Identified via Bates stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT'.

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"Freud’s last paper, Analysis, Terminable and Interminable (1939), featured examples of what he perceived to be the unsolvable mystery of helpless psychological entrapment in repetitious patterns of self-destructive behavior."
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"The Yiddish word for a personified Thanatos is Moloch ha-Moves."
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"Psychologists, who study this form of human mental limit cycle attacks, call this state of internal, repetitiously recited, poetic stuckness, earworms."
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