"For me, the main point is that reality is rich. We can respond to it more immediately and directly, in ways where there's less displacement between representation and reality."

Previous Quote

Another technique for fending off suffering is the employment of the displacements of libido which our mental apparatus permits of and through which its function gains so much in flexibility. The task here is that of shifting the instinctual aims in such a way that they cannot come up against frustration from the external world.

— Sigmund Freud