Sigmund

[ sig-muhnd, seeg-moond; German zeek-moont ]

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noun

(in the Volsunga Saga ) the son of Volsung and Liod; the father, through his sister, Signy, of Sinfjotli; the husband first of Borghild, then of Hjordis; and the father of Sigurd.
(in the Nibelungenlied ) the king of the Netherlands and father of Siegfried.
a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “victory” and “protection.”

Sigmund

/ ˈziːkmʊnt; ˈsɪɡmənd; ˈsiːɡmʊnd /

noun

Norse myth the father of the hero Sigurd
Also calledSiegmundˈziːkmʊnt German myth king of the Netherlands, father of Siegfried

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Played by Basil Rathbone, he fought Nazis in Wold War II; he collaborated with Sigmund Freud in Nicholas Meyer’s “The Seven-Per-Cent Solution”; and in the person of Benedict Cumberbatch, hurried through the glass-tower forest of 21st-century London.

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Sigmund Freud could not get to the heart of this lot.

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Sigmund Freud thought smell related to animalistic behavior and was relevant in humans mostly in terms of behavioral pathology.

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Sigmund Freud thought it related to animalistic behavior and was relevant in humans mostly in terms of behavioral pathology.

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You said something interesting about Sigmund Freud’s writing, about all of his work being fiction.

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