"Life as we find it is too hard for us ... We cannot do without palliative remedies. There are perhaps three of these means: powerful diversions of interest, which lead us to care little about our misery; substitutive gratifications, which lessen it; and intoxicating substances, which make us insensitive to it."
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis. Born in 1856, he developed influential theories about the unconscious mind and psychosexual development that shaped 20th-century psychology and culture. He died in London on 1939-09-23.