Do you think people love having jobs, Sylvia asks Peter in because they offer a condoned but false responsibility that masks, for at least eight hours a day, true responsibility?

David Bajo
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This quote from Sylvia Plath's novel, The Bell Jar , is a good example of Freud's idea that the ego builds a house of cards out of a set of false beliefs. The ego tries to protect itself from anxiety by convincing us that we're in control. If we allow ourselves to feel anxiety, however, we can see that we are not truly in control.

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