Quotation by Sigmund Freud

We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology.
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), Austrian psychiatrist. repr. in Complete Works, vol. 20, eds. James Strachey and Anna Freud (1959). The Question of Lay Analysis, pt. 4 (1926).

The phrase dark continent was written in English.
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