Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
ADAM PHILLIPS
The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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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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There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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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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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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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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Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience.
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There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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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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Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.
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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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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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