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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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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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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 whole notion of sanity may be an attempt to medicalize morality – to speak of the good in the language of health: to make us more accurate, more scientific in our wanting – but by the same token it becomes a form of moral blackmail.
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Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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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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