Celine Prell

“The exploration and construction of a personal history with another person is a powerful, transformative intrapersonal experience. Without memory, there is no self. Meaning is personal experience composed into narratives. However, the narratives brought forth by the patient are generally stereotypes and closed. A central part of what the analyst adds is imagination, a facility with reorganizing and reframing, a capacity to envision different endings, and different futures. If the storylines suggested by the analyst himself are rigid and stereotypes, the analytic process degenerates into sterility and conversion.”
― Stephen A. Mitchell, Hope and Dread in Psychoanalysis

“The development of subjectivity is inextricably bound up with the appreciation of the subjectivity of others”
― Stephen A. Mitchell, Hope and Dread in Psychoanalysis

“The boredom you speak of…that’s what most of us call happiness”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“God does not save us from suffering on this Earth. The Staryk afflict the righteous as well as the sinful, just as do illness and sorrow.”
― Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver