we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
ADAM PHILLIPSThere is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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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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Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience.
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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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One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life.
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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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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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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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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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You write to find out what you believe.
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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 always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
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