The three most bitter blows to 'man/womans' conception of themselves

In the early twentieth century the psychologist Sigmund Freud noted that science had already inflicted on humanity “two great outrages upon its naıve self-love”:

The first, associated with the sixteenthcentury astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, “when it realized that our earth was not the centre of the universe, but only a tiny speck in a world-system of a magnitude hardly conceivable”;

The second, associated with Charles Darwin, “when biological research robbed man of his peculiar privilege of having been specially created, and relegated him to a descent from the animal world.”

The third: Freud went on to observe that “man’s craving for grandiosity is now suffering the third and most bitter blow,” this time at the hands of psychoanalysts, such as himself, who were showing that humans behavior was influenced by unconscious urges.