Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience.
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Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience.
ADAM PHILLIPSThe child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
ADAM PHILLIPSThere is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
ADAM PHILLIPSThe big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
ADAM PHILLIPSI am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?
ADAM PHILLIPSBelieving in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
ADAM PHILLIPSYou write to find out what you believe.
ADAM PHILLIPSWanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
ADAM PHILLIPSWe have been taught to wish for it, but the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults ,
ADAM PHILLIPSWhen we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather than, say, by what we can describe
ADAM PHILLIPSTransgression is a quest for solitude
ADAM PHILLIPSIt 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.
ADAM PHILLIPSOne thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life.
ADAM PHILLIPSTragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
ADAM PHILLIPSSanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition.
ADAM PHILLIPSPeople change, but there really are limits.
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