The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
ADAM PHILLIPSWhen 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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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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We are children for a very long time.
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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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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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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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People change, but there really are limits.
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we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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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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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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