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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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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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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People change, but there really are limits.
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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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There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
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Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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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 scandalous than a happy marriage
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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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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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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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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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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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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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