Sublime

Et j’ai fini par comprendre que l’on ne continue pas à vivre seulement pour soi-même, mais aussi pour les autres. C’est peut-être une évidence, mais c’est seulement maintenant que je le comprends pleinement.

look at what our mind is doing moment after moment—in a way that really isn’t so different from watching our thoughts come and go in meditation. The main difference is that psychoanalysis also asks, “Just where did you get that idea?” In an ongoing dialogue with the analyst we look at our personal history of hope and dread, how when we were growing

I believe that the antidote to much anguish is sheer connectedness, I tryto live in the hour with my patient without erecting artificial and unnecessary barriers.

“perhaps symptoms are messengers of a meaning and will vanish only when their message is comprehended. If so, our next step is obvious: if we are to conquer the symptoms, we must determine what the Bertha obsession means to you!”

The joy of being observed ran so deep that Breuer believed the real pain of old age, bereavement, outliving one’s friends, was the absence of scrutiny—the horror of living an unobserved life.

Je piochais dans le lot, puis finissais par choisir les penseurs qui me semblaient les plus en rapport avec mon domaine de compétence. J’ai enlacé Nietzsche, Sartre, Camus, Schopenhauer, Épicure et Lucrèce, et délaissé Kant, Leibniz, Husserl et Kierkegaard, dont je ne voyais pas comment appliquer cliniquement les idées.