Sigmund Freud:

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and enable us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality and are shattered.

— Sigmund Freud Modern

Psychoanalysis

Context

Civilization and Its Discontents

Date / Period

1930

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/14884/14884-h/14884-h.htm

Verification

Unverifiable

Explanation

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Method

Cross Reference

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