Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother? Quotes
If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.
It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
Your unconscious wants to express the pain you feel about your own lost innocence. But your ego wants to keep it repressed. To the compromise is anxiety.
Psychoanalytic insight, Miller seems to suggest, is itself a pathological symptom.