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I was alone in my room feeling sorry for myself.
Call me a prophet of doom, I could think of nothing else.
I found a Freudian book gathering dust upon my shelf.
I thought I'll give it a look, would it hurt or would it help?

Freudiana, do you want to be somebody?
Freudiana, do you want to change the world?

I met the Wolfman and the Ratman, Anna-O and Little Hans.
They were walking on a tightrope, I never thought they had a chance.
And then a hand reached out to hold them just before they tumbled down.
But I was standing in a quicksand and I could not feel the ground.

Freudiana, do you want to be somebody?
Freudiana, do you want to change the world?

I look back and try to find the part of me I don't know.
I won't stop till I see the truth. There's such a long way to go.

I saw a picture of a stranger but I don't understand.
He had a ring around his finger and something burning in his hand.
And I wanted him to teach me and I needed to believe.
But the shadows that he threw me were intended to deceive.

Freudiana, do you want to be somebody?
Freudiana, do you want to change the world?
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Cover art for Freudiana lyrics by Alan Parsons Project, The

Not a project song

Cover art for Freudiana lyrics by Alan Parsons Project, The

it is, actually

though this album was mostly written by Eric Wolfson, Parsons was involved with the work. However, it is more commonly attributed to just Eric.

But what isa the significance of the Wolf-man, the Rat-man, Anna-O and Little Hans?

They're all patients of Freuds'. :^D The guy is reading about Freud and his work and wondering if he can gain any insight into his own problems from it I think. The Wolfman had dreams about wolves outside his window in a tree which Freud believed was a manifestation of a repressed memory of seeing his parents getting romantic when he was one. The Ratman was an obsessive compulsive who had frequent compulsive fantasies that his fiancee and father would have a bucket of hungry rats tied to their rear resulting in them being eaten. This was from a story he was told...

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@Camb06 And likewise, Rat Man, Anna O and Little Hans were pseudonyms of famous case study subjects of Freud. Rat Man was obsessive-compulsive and one obsession was a morbid fantasy about rats. Anna O. had hysteria and neurological symptoms. Little Hans was a boy with a phobia of horses. They're all on Wikipedia.

Cover art for Freudiana lyrics by Alan Parsons Project, The

Wolfman - was a patient who had dreams about wolves in the tree, and Freud somehow came to the conclusion that he'd seen his parents doing it doggy style, hence the wolves! Can't argue with that logic.