“Being away on Social Media. It doesn't make people to miss you. It makes them to forget about you.”
“Her evident self-possession, though, seemed at odds with the sunglasses, the ends of which were chewed and discolored.”
“No matter how old he is, a person grows up when he loses a loved one.”
Source: Trauer, Panik, Leidenschaft: Geschichten aus der Psychotherapie
“It is also throught this art that we, as human beings, and more broadly as a culture and society, can relate differently to death. Within a mechanistic and biological-reductionistic view of man, suffering, decay, and death can only be meaningless; they cannot be seen as something that has something to say and teach us as human beings. This is perhaps the biggest problem with the Great Mechanistic Narrative: The ultimate master of the sublunary -death- has not been given an acceptable part in it.”
Source: The Psychology of Totalitarianism
“The ability to sense one's own experience and to put it into words and to express it in relation to another is what constitutes the core of our existence as human beings.”
Source: The Psychology of Totalitarianism
“Now, we must go insane in order to understand”
“La respuesta habitual a las atrocidades es borrarlas de la conciencia.
Ciertas violaciones de! orden social son demasiado terribles como para
pronunciarlas en voz alta: ese es el significado de la palabra impronun~
ciable.”
Source: Trauma and recovery
“La respuesta habitual a las atrocidades es borrarlas de la conciencia. Ciertas violaciones de! orden social son demasiado terribles como para pronunciarlas en voz alta: ese es el significado de la palabra impronunciable.”
Source: Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
“People think they get this gut feeling about things, but that’s not what it is. The truth is, it’s their mind noticing things and taking in details. The mind senses the danger; you're just not understanding why.”
Source: Unexpected Love
“The Freudian paradigm is so intertwined with liberalism and humanism and America that to doubt the former is to implicitly denigrate the latter.”
Source: Freudian Fraud: The Malignant Effect of Freud's Theory on American Thought and Culture