Psychological Attachment Quotes

She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do.

In order effectively to liberate oneself from the grip of existing social reality, one should first renounce the transgressive fantasmatic supplement that attaches us to it.

You have a transportation fetish. I have a Gideon fetish. It's been weeks.

Men often marry their mothers.

It is your attachment that creates hell.

Most people marry their mother. I married my father.

Attachment is misery, but from the very beginning the child is taught for attachment. The mother will say to the child, "Love me; I am your mother." The father will say, "Love me; I am your father" - as if someone is a father or a mother so he becomes automatically lovable.

It seems to me psychologically I'm a Canadian.

Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha? She had shaken her head slowly. Men and women who can't get over their past . . . That's what ghosts are.

Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them into right and good arguments-just as a man in a bowling alley, after he has let go of the ball, still tries to direct it with gestures.

A sense of belonging is not physical. We cant find it by changing where we live or what we do. We have to carry it within us

If you didn't have someone to hate, you wouldn't know what to do with yourself, would you?

What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.

Attachment is the shadow of the ego. Attachments are immediately created wherever you see 'I am'.

It is a very curious thing about superstition. One would expect that the man who had once seen his morbid dreams were not fulfilled would abandon them for the future; but on the contrary they grow even stronger just as the love of gambling increases in a man who has once lost in a lottery.

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

It's very hard to grow, because it's difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we've invested so heavily.

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.

Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain!

Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.

Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?

I'm actually a mummy's boy.

[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.

The cell phone has become the adult's transitional object, replacing the toddler's teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging.

The gun becomes this psychological totem, this thing of who I am. And it's almost as if using the gun is going to be the thing that's going to be my expression of how I make a difference in the world.