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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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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 past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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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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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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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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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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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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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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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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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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People change, but there really are limits.
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