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The concept of transference at once destroys faith in personal relations and explains why they are tragic: we cannot know each other. We must grope around for each other through a dense thicket of absent others. We cannot see each other
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“We all craft public personas and tussle with internal dramas.”
― Andy Warhol was a Hoarder: Inside the Minds of History's Great Personalities
― Andy Warhol was a Hoarder: Inside the Minds of History's Great Personalities
“Insight isn’t superficial—it isn’t simply learning something mildly interesting about yourself. It is becoming yourself. It’s finding your way to the child in yourself, it is a profound recognition.”
― Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession
― Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession
“...the past is alive in the present. But the future is alive in the present too. The future is not some place we’re going to, but an idea is our mind now. It is something we’re creating, that in turn creates us. The future is a fantasy that shapes our present.”
― The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
― The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
“The concept of transference at once destroys faith in personal relations and explains why they are tragic: we cannot know each other. We must grope around for each other through a dense thicket of absent others. We cannot see each other plain. A horrible kind of predestination hovers over each new attachment we form.”
― Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession
― Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession
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Welcome to the true crime book club.! Anyone can join! I always wanted to be part of a book club but never had enough confidence to actually attend an ...more
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