“New York Times writer Louis Sass put it this way: Each culture probably needs its own scapegoats as expressions of society’s ills. Just as the hysterics of Freud’s day exemplified the sexual repression of that era, the borderline, whose identity is split into many pieces, represents the fracturing of stable units in our society.2 Though”
― I Hate You--Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality
― I Hate You--Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality
“Indeed, one of the highest pleasures is to be more or less unconscious of one’s own existence, to be absorbed in interesting sights, sounds, places, and people. Conversely, one of the greatest pains is to be self-conscious, to feel unabsorbed and cut off from the community and the surrounding world.”
― The Wisdom of Insecurity
― The Wisdom of Insecurity
“How well I know you by your deeds and how invariably you succeed in living down to what one expects of you!”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“I despise the kind of book which tells you how to live, how to make yourself happy! Philosophers have no good news for you at this level! I believe the first duty of philosophy is making you understand what deep shit you are in!”
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“The complaint of the depressive individual, “Nothing is possible,” can only occur in a society that thinks, “Nothing is impossible.”
― The Burnout Society
― The Burnout Society
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