We are what we are because we have been what we have been, and what is needed for solving the problems of human life and motives is not moral estimat… - Sigmund Freud

We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

"Freud said to Putnam: "We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

If we are to take it as a truth that knows no exception that everything dies for internal reasons – becomes inorganic once again – then we shall be compelled to say that ‘the aim of all life is death’ and, looking backwards, that ‘inanimate things existed before living ones’.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality.