I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy

Alison Bechdel

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Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief.

Alison Bechdel

Mots clés suicide grief alison-bechdel fun-home

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The idea that our unconscious possesses such sure aim excited me. I became more attuned to my own erroneously carried out actions.

Alison Bechdel

Mots clés freud

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The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story. Not, you may note, to serve her family, or to serve the truth, but to serve the story.

Alison Bechdel

Mots clés writing-philosophy

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It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

Alison Bechdel

Mots clés authenticity psychological-insight

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In a narcissistic cathexis, you invest more energy into your ideas about another person than in the actual, objective, external person.

So the man who falls in love with beauty is quite different from the man who loves a girl and feels she is beautiful and can see what is beautiful about her.

Alison Bechdel

Mots clés truth narcissism alison-bechdel

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