Quotes About Agency

We can also add that the generating of anxiety sets symptom-formation going and is, indeed, a necessary prerequisite of it. For if the ego did not arouse the pleasure-unpleasure agency by generating anxiety, it would not obtain the power to arrest the process which is preparing in the id and which threatens danger.

Castration anxiety develops into moral anxiety — social anxiety — and it is not so easy now to know what the anxiety is about. The formula, 'separation and expulsion from the horde', only applies to that later portion of the super-ego which has been formed on the basis of social prototypes, not to the nucleus of the super-ego, which corresponds to the introjected parental agency.

the creation of any sense of unity among a population of potentially disharmonious settlers almost always requires the deliberate agency of man.

The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.

Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.

We only exist if we act.

Ce sont eux [les hommes] qui ont toujours tenu le sort de la femme entre leurs mains; et ils n'en ont pas décidé en fonction de son intérêt; c'est à leurs propres projets, à leurs craintes, à leurs besoins qu'il-ont eu régard.

Sclavul care se supune a ales s? se supun?.

They bear the responsibility for a world which is not the work of a strange power, but of themselves, where their defeats are inscribed, and their victories as well.

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

My mother implanted in me as a young girl...you can either be an actor in your own life, or a reactor in somebody else's.

What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate.

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

I was tired of just letting things happen to me and then feeling bad about them.

Man is the master of his choices,

I'm just so tired of life being something that happens to me. That's not how it's supposed to work. I'm supposed to make my own life.

It seemed to her that living without control of your own will was hardly a step above not living at all.

You are only earning the life you get when your inaction allows people to decide for you.

You are not the victim of the world, but rather the master of your own destiny. It is your choices and decisions that determine your destiny.

Justifying faith is not merely alongside good works, but is also the agency employed by the grace of God to give rise to good works. Thus good works are the evidence of authentic faith.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past.

When I say only himself, I mean directly, and in the first instance: for whatever affects himself, may affect others through himself; and the objection which may be grounded on this contingency, will receive consideration in the sequel. This, then, is the appropriate region of human liberty.

He who let's the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation

He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties