United Kingdom, Psychologist September 19, 1954
Adam Phillips is a British psychotherapist and essayist. Since 2003 he has been the general editor of the new Penguin Modern Classics translations of Sigmund Freud. He is also a regular contributor to the London Review of Books.
To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.
Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs.
The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
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.
Transgression is a quest for solitude.
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