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The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

Sigmund Freud
Anxiety, Firsts, Birth
Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1959). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.