When we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather than, say, by what we can describe
ADAM PHILLIPS
The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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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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People change, but there really are limits.
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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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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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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 vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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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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You write to find out what you believe.
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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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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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I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?
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we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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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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