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When the self relates to the future so as to
symbolize its possibilities as a threat to values considered necessary
for one's existence, then one experiences anxiety. Analogously,
when the self relates to the past so as to symbolize remembered
events as irresponsible negations of values considered necessary
to one's existence, then one experiences guilt. Thus, it is literally
impossible to be guilty toward an empty, future possibility. Likewise,
it is impossible to be anxious toward an irretrievably fixed,
immutable, certain, past actuality.
Reference: TSOA, p. 26
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