We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
ADAM PHILLIPSLovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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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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People change, but there really are limits.
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You write to find out what you believe.
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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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One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life.
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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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we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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