One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life.
ADAM PHILLIPSwe are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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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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Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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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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To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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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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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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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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The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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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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