crucial moments of choice most of the business of choosing is already over.” Willing is not conscious resolve, but rather being true to what one love… - Tom Butler-Bowdon

The behavioral doctrine was that human beings were motivated according to their primary drives of hunger, thirst, elimination, pain, and sex.

It is characteristic of insight solutions and new ideas that they should be obvious after they have been found.

While this example involved projecting instincts onto the world, Freud argued that this is a comparatively healthy form of defense. A more powerful and often more damaging defense is repression, because it requires the most energy to keep it in place.