Sublime

Every age has its own collective neurosis, and every age needs its own psychotherapy to cope with it.

As he got older he developed his own ideas in virtual disregard of the traditional languages of psychoanalysis.

But, contrary to libertarian rhetoric, we are not monads. From birth until death, our ability to reach our goals, even to survive, is tightly linked to our social interactions with others in our society.

The unusually long period for which children are dependent on adults is a clue that humans are designed to learn from others, rather than just through their own explorations.

maturation consists not in leaving needs behind but in recruiting supportive others who can give age-appropriate and generous responses to our needs.

A secure attachment combined with the cultivation of competency builds an internal locus of control, the key factor in healthy coping throughout life.

Another foster-care buzzword is “independence,” which Paul counters with “interdependence.” “We’re all interdependent,” he points out. “The idea that we’re asking our young people to go out in the world completely alone and call themselves independent is crazy. We need to teach them how to be interdependent, which means teaching them how to have re

The gift of the Orphan archetype is a form of interdependent self-reliance.

Fromm argued that those freed from oppression but unable to develop a positive version of freedom were destined to be filled with feelings of separateness and anxiety.⁠