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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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Change Discover Life Psychoanalytic Thing Treatment Yourself
Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition.
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Importance Preoccupation Pressing Recognition Recognize Sanity Word
To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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Discover Grow Growing Up Unequal
To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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Faith Keep Recognition Recognizable Stay
When we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather than, say, by what we can describe
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Comprehend Define Describe Ourselves Rather Recognize
Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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Adulthood Believe Childhood Religion Solution
Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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Adult Most Nostalgia Understood Violent Wanting
It is as if to say: if these are not valued – if these forms of wanting and feeling and speaking and doing – are not cultivated and encouraged and rewarded in the child, then the child will be mad.
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Child Cultivated Encourage Feeling Form Reward Speaking Valued Wanting
Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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Appetite Cure Excesses Feeling Hopelessness Self
We are children for a very long time.
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Children Long Time Very
I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?
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You write to find out what you believe.
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Believe Find Out Writing
Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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Down Getting Minimum Monogamy Version Way
The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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Cliched Criticism Impoverisjhed Self Stupid Vocabulary
Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.
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Analyst Epistemologist Lover Notoriously Paranoiacs Reader Sign Wonder
There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
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Always Belief Destroy Destroying Love Need

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