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.
ADAM PHILLIPSThere is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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We are children for a very long time.
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Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition.
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I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?
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Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
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People change, but there really are limits.
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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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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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You write to find out what you believe.
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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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