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psychotherapy: “Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures… There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitutive satisfactions, which diminish it; and intoxicating substances, which make us insensible to it.” - Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

psychotherapy:

“Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures… There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitutive satisfactions, which diminish it; and intoxicating substances, which make us insensible to it.”

- Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

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    Although published in the early 1930’s, Freud identifies a number of issues in civilization/society that I still
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    despite your typical male thoughts can’t say that you’re not brilliant Freud
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