"If you can't do it, give up!"

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Source: Sigmund Freud (2014). “Freud Verbatim”, p.38, The Overlook Press

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Sigmund Freud

Neurologist, Psychoanalyst

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, known for his theories on the unconscious mind and human sexuality.

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