There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
ADAM PHILLIPSThe big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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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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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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One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life.
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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 are children for a very long time.
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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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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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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 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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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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