Another technique for fending off suffering is the employment of the displacements of libido which our mental apparatus … - Sigmund Freud

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Gratitude conserves the vital energies of a person more than any other attitude tested.

Sigmund Freud

Another technique for fending off suffering is the employment of the displacements of libido which our mental apparatus permits of and through which its function gains so much in flexibility. The task here is that of shifting the instinctual aims in such a way that they cannot come up against frustration from the external world.

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