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In Freuds view, the ego depends upon its phobia. It is, so to speak, its first relationship, and one that is inevitably paranoid (paranoia being a refusal to be left out). A phobia is a conviction that...
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Article 31
The secret the couple have to keep – mostly from each other – is what they are hiding from and that they are hiding. The belief they have to sustain is that their fears are the same. – Adam Phillips
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Article 30
the phobia is reliable. The phobia, which hoards the past, can be the one place in a person’s life where meaning apparently never changes; but this depends upon one’s never knowing what the meaning is....
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Article 29
Freud and James agree that phobias are derivative forms of self-protection, that phobic terror is irrational only insofar as it has missed its target. Adam Phillips, On Balance
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Article 28
the phobia ensures a repression of opportunity, a foreclosing of the possibilities for exchange (“a projection is dangerous,” the psychoanalyst Andre Green has written, “when it prevents the...
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Article 27
to fall in love with someone, they must be perceived to be an obstacle. A necessary obstacle. Adam Phillips
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Article 26
The obstacle provides us with … the pleasure to be got from successfully circumventing the obstacle. (Adam Phillips)
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Article 25
the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults, to our grudge against [the Other] for not meeting our every need. Adam Phillips
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Article 24
beliefs are paternal objects, which we invest with power and authority to console us Adam Phillips
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Article 23
“the phobia ensures a repression of opportunity,..of..exchange.” – Adam Phillips, On Balance
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Article 22
“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.’”...
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Article 15
“desire for authenticity is a failure to mourn, an inability to grow up and out of such vague and insubstantial longings” – Adam-Phillips, On-Balance
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Article 14
“When it comes to the excesses of sexuality we can’t always tell whether our morality is a cover story for our envy” – On Balance – ADAM PHILLIPS
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Article 13
“When it comes to the excesses of sexuality we can’t always tell whether our morality is a cover ..for ..our fear; we would like to be that excited, that promiscuous, that abandoned, but it is too much...
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