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Freud was just a novelist.

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.

I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory.

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.

Sigmund Freud was very much a creature of his time. He did not 'invent' the unconscious.

I spent 10 years trying to find one gene.

I think I was born with the drive for success because I have a certain gene.

I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.