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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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People change, but there really are limits.
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Change Limit People Reality
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
Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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Down Getting Minimum Monogamy Version Way
We have been taught to wish for it, but the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults ,
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Adult Hang Mother Psychology Taught Understanding
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
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
Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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Appetite Cure Excesses Feeling Hopelessness Self
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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Aliveness Bear Dealing Everybody Everything Need
There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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Happy Hidden Marriage Nothing Possibility Scandalous Terrorizing
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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Grudge Hook Meeting Mother Need never
Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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Adult Most Nostalgia Understood Violent Wanting
We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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Hatred Most Self Stupid
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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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

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