Freud Past and Present

 Is Freud suggesting that to be here now is either not possible or is being in a state of uncertainty?



In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future.

~ Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion