There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
ADAM PHILLIPSThe child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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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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There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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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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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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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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You write to find out what you believe.
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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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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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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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