“...death ... it denoted for Freud an object of passionate desire; the lover who ultinately will not refuse us, and yet who takes everyone.” DeathDesireFreud Book:Darwin's Worms: On Life Stories and Death Stories Source: Darwin's Worms: On Life Stories and Death Stories
“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 never... recover from our first false solution to feeling frustrated – the inventing of an ideal object of desire with whom we will never feel the frustration we fear. The ideal person in our minds becomes a refuge from realer exchanges with realer people.” FrustrationIdealismFreudObject Of Desire Book:Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life Source: Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life
