Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition.
ADAM PHILLIPSThe big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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To our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need.
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Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience.
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One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life.
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There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.
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To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.
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The whole notion of sanity may be an attempt to medicalize morality – to speak of the good in the language of health: to make us more accurate, more scientific in our wanting – but by the same token it becomes a form of moral blackmail.
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We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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People change, but there really are limits.
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