Fry Morgan

“Therapy demands that we all become little children and be gratified and healed. What it didn't bargain for was a new lethal and incurable form of childhood - the new infantilism - screaming for needs to be heard and respected.”
― Rob Weatherill, Our Last Great Illusion: A Radical Psychoanalytical Critique of Therapy Culture

“Living organisms cannot be distilled into rule sets, though each is beautiful, elegant, and perfect in its own way.”
― Christine Kenneally, The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language by Christine Kenneally

“The modern propaganda of commodities and the good life has sanctioned impulse gratification and made it unnecessary for the id to apologize for its wishes or disguise their grandiose proportions. But this same propaganda has made failure and loss unsupportable.”
― Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations

“[A]nalysis can easily become [...] the autoerotism of therapy, implying an essentially circular pleasure, self-centered, a self-caress which includes the other, indeed welcomes the other, providing the other is really the same.”
― Rob Weatherill, Our Last Great Illusion: A Radical Psychoanalytical Critique of Therapy Culture