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“the observation made by novelist Fay Weldon: “The greatest advantage of not having children must be that you can go on believing you are a nice person. Once you have children, you understand how wars start.”
― Schopenhauer's Porcupines: Intimacy And Its Dilemmas: Five Stories Of Psychotherapy
― Schopenhauer's Porcupines: Intimacy And Its Dilemmas: Five Stories Of Psychotherapy
“This etymology puts me in mind of Winnicott’s notion of potential space–that intermediate area between the subjective and objective in which creativity and play occur. Psychotherapy is akin to play, according to Winnicott. Therapy takes place neither inside the mind of the patient nor inside that of the therapist, but in some middle area, in the potential space between them.”
― Schopenhauer's Porcupines: Intimacy And Its Dilemmas: Five Stories Of Psychotherapy
― Schopenhauer's Porcupines: Intimacy And Its Dilemmas: Five Stories Of Psychotherapy
“Freud wrote: “The evidence of psychoanalysis shows that almost every intimate emotional relation between two people which lasts for some time–marriage, friendship, the relations between parents and children–contains a sediment of feelings of aversion and hostility, which only escapes perception as a result of repression.” Freud believed that the one exception to this was the love of a mother for her son, which was “based on narcissism,” proving only that he was, among many other things, an Old World Patriarch.”
― Schopenhauer's Porcupines: Intimacy And Its Dilemmas: Five Stories Of Psychotherapy
― Schopenhauer's Porcupines: Intimacy And Its Dilemmas: Five Stories Of Psychotherapy
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