Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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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We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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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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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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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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People change, but there really are limits.
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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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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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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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We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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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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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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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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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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