play, with the human creatures provided with both choice, and consequences, which included death.
Limitations is represented by the composition of the human creature. As Becker indicated, both Kierkegaard and Freud recognized that the fundamental problem for human beings was that they were not totally animal - unselfconscious and immersed in nature - but not able to reach divinity. Instead, they are limited to a condition in which they can imagine much more than they are capable of accomplishing. It is only in imagination in which people can become immortal or roll back the tidal waves or totally control their lives. People cannot save themselves, nor anyone or anything they love, from death, although they can delay its end. Yet they can imagine doing so, and they can imagine some being having the power to do so.
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