The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
ADAM PHILLIPSSanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition.
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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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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You write to find out what you believe.
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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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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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People change, but there really are limits.
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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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The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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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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Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
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Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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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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We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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We are children for a very long time.
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