Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition.
ADAM PHILLIPSThe child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.
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I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?
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we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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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 vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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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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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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People change, but there really are limits.
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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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