That which he projects ahead of him as his ideal, is merely his substitute for the lost narcissism of his childhood - the time when he was his own id… - Sigmund Freud

"Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All who wish to reach a higher standard than their constitution will allow, fall victims to neurosis. It would have been better for them if they could have remained less "perfect"."

Moreover, the act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.