Laura Mackay Psychotherapy

CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOTHERAPY & PSYCHOANALYSIS IN CLIFTON, BRISTOL BS8

Thoughts

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Inspiration

“I think…that we have not yet become human. Or, I might say, in a different way, that the category of the human is in the process of becoming. What constitutes the human is a site of contestation. There are clashing cultural interpretations about what the human ought to be, and that every time you assert human rights, you are also adding to the meaning of what the human is.”

– Judith Butler

“It seemed that if you were subjugated, there were also forms of agency that were available to you, and you were not just a victim, or you were not only oppressed, but oppression could become the condition of your agency.”

– Judith Butler

Quotes

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”

“Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.”

– Sigmund Freud

“What I seek is a permanent opening of possibilities.”

“To work is to undertake to think something other than what one has thought before.”

“The main interest in life and work is to become something else that you were not in the beginning.”

– Michel Foucault

“There is a future which is predictable, programmed, scheduled, foreseeable. But there is a future, l’avenir (to come) which refers to someone who comes whose arrival is totally unexpected. For me, that is the real future. That which is totally unpredictable. The Other who comes without my being able to anticipate their arrival. So if there is a real future, beyond the other known future, it is l’avenir in that it is the coming of the Other when I am completely unable to foresee their arrival.”

“Who ever said that one was born just once?”

– Jacques Derrida

“A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet “for sale”, who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence – briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing – cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society. He cannot help doubting himself and his own convictions, if not his sanity. He cannot help suffering, even though he can experience moments of joy and clarity that are absent in the life of his “normal” contemporaries. Not rarely will he suffer from neurosis that results from the situation of a sane man living in an insane society, rather than that of the more conventional neurosis of a sick man trying to adapt himself to a sick society. In the process of going further in his analysis, i.e. of growing to greater independence and productivity, his neurotic symptoms will cure themselves.”s born just once?”

– Erich Fromm

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Feel free to contact me by email using this secure contact form if you have any questions about how psychotherapy works, or to arrange an initial assessment appointment. This enables us to discuss the reasons you are thinking of coming to counselling, whether it could be helpful for you and whether I am the right therapist to help.


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