Publisher's Synopsis
Men generally (with some reservations) think that we exercise Free Will. This book argues otherwise. We are engaged in identity discovery, driven by the most basic instinct of all - the instinct to satisfy our curiosity, to encounter experience, and to master it. All other creatures employ this instinct in its most primitive and attenuated form, sufficient only to promote the survival of the species. Man self-evidently has a bigger role. And this, ultimately, is why comparison with other species is fallacious, and why Freudian thought was, and is, so inadequate, as was Marx's, to deal with human discontents. Further, it is most unlikely that a "missing link" will ever be discovered.
