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The Lesson of Psychoanalysis Is That You Can't Be Identical to Yourself

I think it's really hard to grasp the radicality of your own position and then integrate that into your life. The history of people not living up to their own ideas is a long and sad history, right? Like there's not, you know, I think that's pretty commonplace. Maybe the lesson of psychoanalysis is that's a necessary mystery.

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