"...from the psychoanalytic standpoint... man is a hystericized animal, an animal who no longer knows what it wants, an animal who needs a Master figure of an Other to set [for] it the limits, to tell it what it wants, an animal caught in the game of provoking the Master, an animal in whom this provoking, this questioning of the Master's authority, is inextricably linked to the call for a new Master, and vice versa, in whom the desire for a Master is always accompanied by a hidden qualification: "...a Master whom I will be able to dominate/manipulate." (The Parallax View, p. 92)
It's amazing how much this sounds like a description of the sinful nature, even if it's coming from an atheist philosopher...
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