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The child..will try to make h...

The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .. Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’

Adam Phillips 24 quotes

The vocabulary of one’s self-...

The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clich?d. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.

Adam Phillips 24 quotes

Sanity, as the project of kee...

Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience. To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable. Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition. When we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather than, say, by what we can describe- we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see. We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.

Adam Phillips 24 quotes

People change, but there real...

People change, but there really are limits. One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life. We are children for a very long time.

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Believing in religion is like...

Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.

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The whole notion of sanity ma...

The whole notion of sanity may be an attempt to medicalize morality - to speak of the good in the language of health: to make us more accurate, more scientific in our wanting - but by the same token it becomes a form of moral blackmail. 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.

Adam Phillips 24 quotes

Transgression is a quest for ...

Transgression is a quest for solitude

Adam Phillips 24 quotes

There is nothing more terrori...

There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden. There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage

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I am always true to myself, t...

I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?

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Everybody is dealing with how...

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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We have been taught to wish f...

We 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 , to our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.

Adam Phillips 24 quotes

Tragic heroes are failed prag...

Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.

Adam Phillips 24 quotes

The past influences everythin...

The past influences everything and dictates nothing.

Adam Phillips 24 quotes

I am always true to myself, th...

I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?

Adam Phillips 24 quotes

The wish to be understood may ...

The wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as asults, to our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.

Adam Phillips 24 quotes

The vocabulary of one's self-c...

The vocabulary of one's self-criticism is so impoverished and clichГ©d. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.

Adam Phillips 24 quotes

There is always a ..belief tha...

There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs

Adam Phillips 24 quotes

Transgression is a quest for s...

Transgression is a quest for solitude

Adam Phillips 24 quotes

The child can find out what th...

The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access

Adam Phillips 24 quotes

Tragic heroes are failed pragm...

Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.

Adam Phillips 24 quotes

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