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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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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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Accurate Blackmail Children Feeling Good Health Language Mad Moral Morality Sanity Scientific Speak
There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
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Always Belief Destroy Destroying Love Need
People change, but there really are limits.
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Change Limit People Reality
The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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Happy Marriage More Nothing Scandalous
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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Adult Hang Mother Psychology Taught Understanding
we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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Continually Look See Threat Unable Unwilling
Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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End Failed Hero Impractical Mean Pragmatist Unrealistic
Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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Adult Most Nostalgia Understood Violent Wanting
We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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Ourselves Spot Tyrannized Unacceptable Whatever
Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.
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Analyst Epistemologist Lover Notoriously Paranoiacs Reader Sign Wonder
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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Grudge Hook Meeting Mother Need never
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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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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Child Children Independent People Self Try
To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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Faith Keep Recognition Recognizable Stay
Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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Down Getting Minimum Monogamy Version Way

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