In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future.


The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (ed. 1961)

Sigmund Freud Quotes

In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put...

In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put...

In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put...

In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put...