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Freud believed unconscious desires caused phobias.

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Sigmund Freud believed that phobias were caused by repressed emotions or memories from childhood, leading to anxiety and irrational fear towards specific objects or situations. He suggested that phobias could be a result of unresolved conflicts between the conscious and unconscious mind.

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