You write to find out what you believe.
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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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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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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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Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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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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Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.
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There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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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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