One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life.
ADAM PHILLIPSWanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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People change, but there really are limits.
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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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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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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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Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition.
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We are children for a very long time.
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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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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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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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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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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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