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Adam Phillips
“And reality matters because it is the only thing that can satisfy us.”
Adam Phillips, Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life

Adam Phillips
“However much you have been wanting and hoping and dreaming of meeting the person of your dreams, it is only when you meet them that you will start missing them. It seems that the presence of an object is required to make its absence felt (or to make the absence of something felt). A kind of longing may have preceded their arrival, but you have to meet in order to feel the full force of your frustration in their absence.”
Adam Phillips, Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life

Adam Phillips
“So there are three consecutive frustrations: the frustration of need, the frustration of fantasized satisfaction not working, and the frustration of satisfaction in the real world being at odds with the wished-for, fantasized satisfaction. Three frustrations, three disturbances, and two disillusionments. It is, what has been called in a different context, a cumulative trauma; the cumulative trauma of desire. And this is when it works.”
Adam Phillips, Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life

Adam Phillips
“Falling in love, finding your passion, are attempts to locate, to picture, to represent what you unconsciously feel frustrated about, and by.”
Adam Phillips, Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life

Adam Phillips
“(The French psychoanalyst Lacan suggested that the Christian injunction ‘love thy neighbour as thyself’ must be ironic because people hate themselves.)”
Adam Phillips, On Kindness

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