There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
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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We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition.
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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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When we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather than, say, by what we can describe
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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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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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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 children for a very long time.
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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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