It would be possible, from a psychoanalytic point of view, to describe the singularity of a person's life in terms of the risks courted and the risks evaded (in this sense, a symptom turns up when an opportunity has been missed, a risk not taken).As Lenin insisted, it is always never the right time for a revolution.
[Adam Phillips]
Side Effects ('Learning to Live'), p.159
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The development of one's essential traits depends indeed on circumstances that allow for practice and risk taking.
[James Hillman]
We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy - And the World's Getting Worse, p.70
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I think I don’t regret a single ‘excess’ of my responsive youth, I only regret in my chilled age certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
[Henry James]
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