Full Idea
Freud takes a thoroughly pessimistic view of human nature. ...Introspection reveals only the deep tissue of ambivalent motive, and fantasy is a stronger force than reason. Objectivity and unselfishness are not natural to human beings.
Gist of Idea
Freud is pessimistic about human nature; it is ambivalent motive and fantasy, rather than reason
Source
report of Sigmund Freud (works [1900], II) by Iris Murdoch - The Sovereignty of Good II
Book Reference
Murdoch,Iris: 'The Sovereignty of Good' [RKP 1974], p.51
A Reaction
Interesting. His view seems to have coloured the whole of modern culture, reinforced by the hideous irrationality of the Nazis. Adorno and Horkheimer attacking the Enlightenment was the last step in that process.