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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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Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition.
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Importance Preoccupation Pressing Recognition Recognize Sanity Word
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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Comprehend Define Describe Ourselves Rather Recognize
The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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Child Doubt Food Hide Love
People change, but there really are limits.
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Change Limit People Reality
You write to find out what you believe.
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Believe Find Out Writing
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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The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
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Access Child Children Finding might Object Obstacle
Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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Down Getting Minimum Monogamy Version Way
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
To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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Discover Grow Growing Up Unequal
Transgression is a quest for solitude
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Quest Solitude Transgression
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
I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?
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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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Grudge Hook Meeting Mother Need never
Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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Adulthood Believe Childhood Religion Solution
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

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