“I remain too impressed with Freud’s vision of the human animal’s compromise with existence – the defense or deflection of our ego in knowledge of ourselves from what there is to know about ourselves – to suppose that a human life can get itself without residue into the clear.”

“I remain too impressed with Freud’s vision of the human animal’s compromise with existence – the defense or deflection of our ego in knowledge of ourselves from what there is to know about ourselves – to suppose that a human life can get itself without residue into the clear.”

— Stanley Cavell