You write to find out what you believe.
ADAM PHILLIPSOne thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life.
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There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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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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There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
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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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To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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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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We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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People change, but there really are limits.
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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 child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
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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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