we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
ADAM PHILLIPSThere is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
ADAM PHILLIPSThe past influences everything and dictates nothing.
ADAM PHILLIPSThe child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’
ADAM PHILLIPSBelieving in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
ADAM PHILLIPSTransgression is a quest for solitude
ADAM PHILLIPSEverybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.
ADAM PHILLIPSYou write to find out what you believe.
ADAM PHILLIPSLovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.
ADAM PHILLIPSWe are children for a very long time.
ADAM PHILLIPSThe child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
ADAM PHILLIPSThe child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
ADAM PHILLIPSOne thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life.
ADAM PHILLIPSSanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience.
ADAM PHILLIPSWanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
ADAM PHILLIPSExcesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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