Adam Phillips
Adam Phillips
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blind-spots limits recognition
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.
brothers global leaders nations raise sisters together united voices
United Nations is an organization of global neighbors. I really wanted to be here to raise our voices together to our leaders to do more for our brothers and sisters who are poor.
solitude quests transgression
Transgression is a quest for solitude
assessment problem being-true
I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?
way monogamy minimum
Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
believe writing
You write to find out what you believe.
children mad feelings
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.
happy-marriage possibility scandalous
There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden. There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
art secret want
The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
growing-up grows
To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
believe childhood solutions
Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
needs bears
Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.
children might obstacles
The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
hero mean pragmatists
Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.