I started my professional activity
as a neurologist trying to bring relief
to my neurotic patients.
Under the influence of an older friend
and by my own efforts,
I discovered some important new facts
about the unconscious in psychic life,
the role of instinctual urges, and so on.
Out of these findings grew a new science,
psychoanalysis, a part of psychology,
and a new method of treatment of the neurosis.
I had to pay heavily,
for this bit of good luck.
People did not believe in my facts
and thought my theories unsavory.
Resistance was strong and unrelenting.
In the end I succeed in acquiring pupils
and building up an International Psychoanalytic Association.
But the struggle is not yet over.
Sigmund Freud.
