We are children for a very long time.
ADAM PHILLIPSEverybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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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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Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.
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You write to find out what you believe.
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Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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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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To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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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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we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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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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Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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