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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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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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Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable.
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Faith Keep Recognition Recognizable Stay
One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life.
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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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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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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
Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience.
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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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Quest Solitude Transgression
We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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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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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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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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