One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life.
ADAM PHILLIPSTo keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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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There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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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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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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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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Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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You write to find out what you believe.
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We are children for a very long time.
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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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