The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
ADAM PHILLIPSTo our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need.
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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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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Transgression is a quest for solitude
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People change, but there really are limits.
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Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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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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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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You write to find out what you believe.
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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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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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One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life.
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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 at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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We are children for a very long time.
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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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