Do we have any say in history?
“The self you experience as yourself—the deliberate, choosing, narrating self—is not the primary phenomenon. It is a secondary formation, a surface effect produced by deeper processes. Your desires, your fears, your loves, your repetitions: these were formed by forces that preceded your awareness of them. Therapy does not liberate you from this; it simply makes the formation legible so you can, at best, make a slightly more conscious peace with it.”