To love is to stop looking at our reflection in the mirrors, and actively bring ourselves out there, where the Other is struggling to find us.
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We are more than what we are aware of ourselves: there are underlying unconscious driving forces, repressed memories, and primal interactions with others that have shaped our present selves. Psychoanalysis allows us to examine these forces, memories, and relationships, and make sense of who we are: omnipotent and vulnerable and loving and unforgiving and tender and angry and joyful and sad. Yes, we are contradictory in nature, and what allows for growth and personal transformation is not erasing parts of who we are, but holding together our contradictions. Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman  |
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