The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
ADAM PHILLIPSThe child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
More Adam Phillips Quotes
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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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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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Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
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The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.
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Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
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People change, but there really are limits.
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we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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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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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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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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There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.
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You write to find out what you believe.
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