One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life.
ADAM PHILLIPSWe are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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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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Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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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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You write to find out what you believe.
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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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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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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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Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.
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People change, but there really are limits.
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