Collectively, most of us live a life that is a lie. We remain bound to our infantilism and to the cultural constructs of the father. Because of this, most men cannot rise up to their potential heroic, cosmic, and spiritual dimensions. Man, more than often, refuses to become a mature Person utilizing to the fullest his speculative, creative, and intuitive mind. Rather he remains the child caught in the web of transference for the father.
Most men are also scared to death of possible finitude.
They retreat into the protection of the father. Man will play social games that structure their avoidances and defenses. Most of us, all the time, through transference collectively and individually, live the life of the lie. It is, and it is not. As Freud had observed, whole civilizations and moral world-orders have been built on transference.