“It is a joy to be hidden,” wrote Winnicott of the struggles of such children, “but disaster not to be found.”

We emerge, as infants, from a relational matrix and then struggle to come to terms with the trauma of aloneness.

It must be asked here: why does the patient go on being worried by this that belongs to the past? The answer must be that the original experience of primitive agony cannot get into the past tense unless the ego can first gather it into its own present time experience. . . .

“the unbearable embeddedness of

Nothing exists in its own right or under its own power.

“Outside is pure energy and colorless substance. All of the rest happens through the mechanism of our senses. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.”

In his careful elucidation of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, he established the means by which implicit memories can be converted to narrative ones.

Especially in situations in which unbearable emotions are stirred up, the self’s only choice is to wall itself off from whatever is threatening it, to remove itself from what it cannot regulate.

“In a blindfold world I go to beat the Deathless