Sentence:  To assert that morality is self-evident and that one had never done a mean thing are strangely revealing statements to come from the lips of a person whose object of study was man, himself included. It reflects, I believe, <WSD>Freud</WSD><nowiki>'</nowiki>s unshakable determination to be a moralist in the guise of a scientist. In this endeavor, he succeeded only too well: as a cryptomoralist, <WSD>Freud</WSD> became the founder of a sort of secular religion which has had immense influence on popular contemporary thought and life. [...] 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist, psychotherapist, and founder of psychoanalysis.