“A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases have occurred. That the Messiah will come and found a golden age is much less probable.”

— Sigmund Freud

Source: 1920s, The Future of an Illusion (1927), Ch. 6

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Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psycho… 1856–1939

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