To possess taste, one must have some soul.
To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.
The purest form of listening is to listen without memory or desire.
Every session attended by the analyst must have no history and no future. What is 'known' about the patient is of no further consequence: it is either false or irrelevant. If it is 'known' by patient and analyst, it is obsolete. . . . The only point of importance in any session is the unknown. Nothing must be allowed to distract from intuiting that. In any session, evolution takes place. Out of the darkness and formlessness something evolves.
To dare to be aware of the facts of the universe in which we are existing calls for courage.
It is very important to be aware that you may never be satistied with your analytic career if you feel that you are restricted to what is narrowly called a ‘scientific’ approach. You will have to be able to have a chance of feeling that the interpretation you give is a beautiful one, or that you get a beautiful response from the patient. This aesthetic element of beauty makes a very difficult situation tolerable.
It is too often forgotten that the gift of speech, so centrally employed, has been elaborated as much for the purpose of concealing thought by dissimulation and lying as for the purpose of elucidating and communicating thought.
When you release your expectations that the world should fulfill you, your disappointments vanish.
It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.
Dogs don't mind being photographed in compromising situations.
As an audience member, I like watching Rupert as an actor when he's most playful,. . . I think Rupert is really adept at comedy I think that's where his strength lies.