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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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The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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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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Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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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 are children for a very long time.
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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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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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Aliveness Bear Dealing Everybody Everything Need
One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life.
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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 tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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