Adam Phillips

Adam Phillips, psychotherapist and author, does not email or tweet. If he did, what would he say? (fan account dedicated to Adam Phillips quotes only)

[British Psychoanalytic Association @BPApsychUK]

On Kafka, Freud and being left out, from @AnalystPhillips via @LRB https://t.co/eZzKYPNt24

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"We are so hungry for reassurance, we so much need to live by the precedent of other people's lives - by quotation - that we forget how different every couple is."

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That people are not identical, but that it is possible for them to be equal in certain ways, is one of our modern political hopes.

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"If it is the forbidden that is exciting - if desire is fundamentally trasgressive - then the monogamous are like the very rich. They have to find their poverty."

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Infidelity is such a problem because we take monogamy for granted; we treat it as the norm. Perhaps we should take infidelity for granted, assume it with unharrassed ease. Then we would be able to think about monogamy.

[British Psychoanalytic Association @BPApsychUK]

"Like Sartre and Camus, [Adam] Phillips seems to believe that the life you’re living is not one you have been forced to settle for but one that you chose, or, in any case, should take responsibility for." #psychoanalysis @AnalystPhillips #lifeisgood https://t.co/jBvXDk017s

[Tas Tasgal @TaswellHill]

"Need is the fall guy of desire" Adam Phillips @AnalystPhillips #behaviouraleconomics

[Sanat Gibi Hayat @sanatgibihayat1]

"Flört Üzerine, "Dehşetler ve Uzmanlar", "Kreşteki Yabani" kitaplarıyla da yakından tanıdığımız Phillips'ın "Kaçırdıklarımız" kitabı tekrar raflarda! @Metiskitap @AnalystPhillips #kaçırdıklarımız #adamphillips
Adam Phillips’ten ‘Kaçırdıklarımız’ - https://t.co/yOdWMqLGI3

[şafak ulusoy @safakulusoy]

https://t.co/kw36F34AhI Kaçırdığımızı sandığımız şeylerin peşinde, elimizdekileri bize hatırlatan bir kitap 'Kaçırdıklarımız'. Benim de kitap üstüne yazdıklarım. @Metiskitap @AnalystPhillips

[Granta @GrantaMag]

Finish 2019 off right by delving into our most popular non-fiction of the year. Discover work by Alison Smith, @summerbrennan, Mary Gaitskill, @hkatewilliams, Jeremy Narby, @poppysm, Sylvie Weil, @RebTamas, @AnalystPhillips & Devorah Baum and @LuciaOC_.

https://t.co/5gHvi62CIc

[British Psychoanalytic Association @BPApsychUK]

In this @FreudMusLondon #podcast, @LisaAppignanesi discusses her book, Everyday Madness: on Grief, Anger, Loss and Love with Adam Phillips @AnalystPhillips https://t.co/b5mFw7aEiz

[John Saunders @mouldedriver]

"It's a symptom of real despair in the culture, idealising children. What it says is, being an adult is a disaster. I think it would be possible to have pictures of good lives that are not set up to make one fail."

Much wisdom here from @AnalystPhillips
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"The need to apologise is a magical solution to shame, and I think it is a very bad thing. I think people shouldn't apologise and they shouldn't forgive." https://t.co/v5MnNAwAwA

[Alan Page @alanspage]

"...Joan Riviere's infamous, and possibly apocryphal remark that socialism is the religion of younger siblings ".

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We can only help people if we have some notion of what is good for them; and so we need ways of finding out from them what this might be.

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What is being taken when we take care of another person?

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"The forbidden thought may be that there is more pleasure in being less special; that self-importance is the enemy of self-satisfaction" -AP

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"Why is hierarchy the reflex response to difference?" -AP

[Adam Phillips @AnalystPhillips]

"Too much consensus, just like too little, is the enemy of democracy" -AP