Sublime

Therapy is an invention devised to correct the substantial difficulties we face understanding ourselves, trusting others, communicating successfully, honouring our potential and feeling adequately serene, confident, authentic, direct and unashamed.

feel able to express their needs and feelings, while maintaining the capacity for some independence.

Therapists know the human heart, not primarily through books, but by being courageous about exploring their own nature. They may not share our fantasies exactly, but they accept that their own are as colourful and as complex. They don’t have our precise anxieties, but they know well enough the powerful and peculiar fears that hold us all hostage.

il défend pour la première fois la thèse selon laquelle la libido serait le siège de deux grandes tendances : l’une pousserait le sujet vers son monde intérieur (l’introversion) et l’autre vers le monde extérieur (l’extraversion). Chez chaque individu, l’une ou l’autre tendance prédomine, ce qui influe sur son rapport à lui-même et sa vision du

Freud was a modern alchemist who reformulated medieval demons as complexes and Darwinian imperatives. He translated all things devilish - lust, violence, cruelty - into terms that were compatible with twentieth-century thinking.

The density of the ego depends on the degree to which you—the consciousness—are identified with your mind, with