After all, what capitalism requires is a life consisting of work, needs, and satisfactions. An animal life, in short.
Alain Badiou • The True Life
contemporary life presents us with so many possibilities of fulfillment that no one could pursue them all with enough consistency and commitment to achieve the value that all these sources have to offer.
Mitchell S. Green • Know Thyself: The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge
The absence of trust in one’s own authentic identity is a powerful motivator to place trust in other things, hoping they will help us understand who we are. Coupled with a lifetime of results in which our adapted self has worked fairly well for us, discovering a different way of being is no small task.
Drew Moser • The Enneagram of Discernment: The Way of Vocation, Wisdom, and Practice
Freud’s work is best read as a long elegy for the intelligibility of our lives. We make sense of our lives in order to be free not to have to make sense.