regulates how relationships work and also determines a great deal about how conflict between people can be regulated.
“Pathology has made us acquainted with a great number of states in which the boundary lines between the ego and the external world become uncertain or in which they are actually drawn incorrectly.”
― Civilization and Its Discontents
― Civilization and Its Discontents
“Whoever loves pleasure will be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.”
― The Holy Bible, English Standard Version (with Cross-References): Old and New Testaments
― The Holy Bible, English Standard Version (with Cross-References): Old and New Testaments
“With epatience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone.”
― The Holy Bible, English Standard Version (with Cross-References): Old and New Testaments
― The Holy Bible, English Standard Version (with Cross-References): Old and New Testaments
“At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away. Against all the evidence of his senses, a man who is; in love declares that ‘I’ and ‘you’ are one, and is prepared to behave as if it were a fact.”
― Civilization and Its Discontents
― Civilization and Its Discontents
“Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor’s house, lest he have his fill of you and hate you.”
― The Holy Bible, English Standard Version (with Cross-References): Old and New Testaments
― The Holy Bible, English Standard Version (with Cross-References): Old and New Testaments
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