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

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

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.’

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

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

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.

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