Freud then demeans the ‘common man’ by claiming, “Life, as we find it, is too hard for us... In order to bear it… there are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections… substitutive satisfactions… and intoxicating substances” (22). The coping measures that Freud describes are an effect of human suffering that, consequently, provides all humans with only an illusion of happiness. As Freud explains the foul of human life, uses the word ‘we’ to explain that all humans use at least one of the methods to bear the suffering of life. The use of ‘we’, however, also causes his readers to turn their attention to themselves, evaluating if Freud is indeed
