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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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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
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
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 children for a very long time.
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Children Long Time Very
It is as if to say: if these are not valued – if these forms of wanting and feeling and speaking and doing – are not cultivated and encouraged and rewarded in the child, then the child will be mad.
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Child Cultivated Encourage Feeling Form Reward Speaking Valued Wanting
The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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Child Doubt Food Hide Love
Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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Down Getting Minimum Monogamy Version Way
The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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Dictate Everything Influence Nothing Past
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
People change, but there really are limits.
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Change Limit People Reality
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
Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience.
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Blind Spots Experience Human Limit Recognition
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
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
You write to find out what you believe.
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Believe Find Out Writing
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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Aliveness Bear Dealing Everybody Everything Need

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