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Adam Phillips

“So there are three consecutive frustrations: the frustration of need, the frustration of fantasized satisfaction not working, and the frustration of satisfaction in the real world being at odds with the wished-for, fantasized satisfaction. Three frustrations, three disturbances, and two disillusionments. It is, what has been called in a different context, a cumulative trauma; the cumulative trauma of desire. And this is when it works.”

Adam Phillips, Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life
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Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life by Adam Phillips
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