To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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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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 [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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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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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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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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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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There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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People change, but there really are limits.
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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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We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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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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One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life.
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