Sublime

Some children—those who are really hurting badly—spend most of their time feeling isolated and powerless, and little or no time playing freely. But even the healthiest, best-loved children will retreat into these two fortresses when they feel scared, overwhelmed, or abandoned.

himself into a rage. “These guys are focusing on the worst tendencies of some of the worst women out there and spreading it like a cloud of fertilizer on all women.” Ross reminded me of an old rhythm-and-blues artist who has been ripped off so much that he trusts no one. But at least there are publishing companies and copyrights in place to protect

Pour Freud, le premier à avoir conceptualisé leur existence, le « ça », la partie instinctive du psychisme (de l’allemand es, représentant la nature dans toute sa puissance et son exotisme, en notre sein), le « surmoi » (la représentation intériorisée parfois oppressive de l’ordre social), et l’« ego » (le « moi », la personnalité propre, coincée e

The specifics of Freud’s reconstruction have not found much favor with Egyptologists, but his arguments about memory and history have been very influential. Freud suggested that, much like individuals who have suffered trauma, societies repress the memory of horrific events in their past because these are too painful to confront or document directl

One analyst told me of a client who grew up in a family where no one was allowed to watch anything except cartoons. It was as if the whole family had not grown up. When she was depressed, the client watched cartoons all day. She eventually confessed how she would be terrified to watch a romantic comedy; the idea of going to the video store and watc