“Lives dominated by impossible ideals – complete honesty, absolute knowledge, perfect happiness, eternal love – are lives experienced as continuous failure.” FailureIdealism 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
