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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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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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Down Getting Minimum Monogamy Version Way
Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience.
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Blind Spots Experience Human Limit Recognition
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
To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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Faith Keep Recognition Recognizable Stay
The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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Cliched Criticism Impoverisjhed Self Stupid Vocabulary
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
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
The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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Child Doubt Food Hide Love
You write to find out what you believe.
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Believe Find Out Writing
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
We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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Ourselves Spot Tyrannized Unacceptable Whatever
We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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Hatred Most Self Stupid
People change, but there really are limits.
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Change Limit People Reality
I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?
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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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Aliveness Bear Dealing Everybody Everything Need
The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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Art Big Secret True Want

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