Celine Prell

“Every person you knew and loved did not have to consume you for the relationship to have been worth while”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“All of us regard our own theory as most balanced, because we each stand at the center of our own (conceptual) world, with the thoughts of others arranged around us, everyone else accounted for.”
― Stephen A. Mitchell, Hope and Dread in Psychoanalysis

“There comes a time when one’s taste exceeds one’s abilities... The only way forward is to create anyway”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“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