“In Darwin's writing people, as animals, may be unhappy, but they are doing what they cannot help do; in Freud's account people are equally driven, but their unhappiness shows they are divided against themselves. They always seem to want more than, or something other than, their mere existence and the reproduction of their genetic inheritance. As though our nature is to demand of nature more than it can give. There is a fantasy life that is a theatre of excess.” FantasyHuman NatureFreudDarwin Book:Darwin's Worms: On Life Stories and Death Stories Source: Darwin's Worms: On Life Stories and Death Stories
“We are tempted, initially, to be self-satisfying creatures, to live in a fantasy world, to live in our minds, but the only satisfactions available are the satisfactions of reality, which are themselves frustrating; but only in the sense that they are disparate from, not in accord with our wished-for satisfactions” RealityFantasySatisfactionFrustration Book:Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life Source: Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life
