Freud considered artists individuals with special aptitudes for assuaging the pain of an unconscious conflict by a temporary substitute gratification. Art achieves its psychic results by means of an adult form of fantasy-making or play. The artist is more sensitive to psychic stimuli than are most people, and better able to clothe his meaning in æsthetic form and symbols that veil the underlying instinctual impulses. Through his creation, the artist discharges enough tension to make his conflicts tolerable for a while. In seeking tranquility, the artist is not different from the scientist, the lawyer, or others. The social function of art lies in its establishing communication of mind with mind, psyche with psyche.