Imagine a life without normative life stories …

“A good life is either the successful negotiation of a more or less preset developmental projects; or it can be something that we make up as we go along, according to our wishes, in endlessly proliferating and competing versions, the unconscious feeding us our best lines.”

“The conflict between knowing what a life is and the sense that a life contains within it something that makes such knowing impossible is at the heart of Freud’s enterprise.”