Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect.

Public intellectuals come from a range of areas and use their expertise to comment more widely than just their field. They want to make a contribution to public space, and they stick their necks out to do it.

I thought of the analyst Winnicott's observation: 'It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found'.

From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.

We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.

The analyst's psyche operates as a kind of... something to hold on to while somebody's going through therapy, if they're deconstructing their own psyche, if that's cracking up in some way, or dissolving.

Not that it was Twiggy's fault, but the ubiquity of her image created a sense in young women that to be stylish meant to be skinny, flat-chested with an ingenue face and straight hair.