Tell Me What You Yearn For And

Sooner Or Later Something Seems To Call Us Onto A Particular Path... This Is What I Must Do, This Is What I've Got To Have. This Is Who I Am.

There Is More In A Human Life Than Our Theories Of It Allow. Sooner Or Later Something Seems To Call Us Onto A Particular Path. You May Remember This "something" As A Signal Moment In Childhood When An Urge Out Of Nowhere, A Fascination, A Peculiar Turn Of Events Struck Like An Annunciation: This Is What I Must Do, This Is What I've Got To Have. This Is Who I Am.

We Must Look Back Over Our Lives And Look At Some Of The Accidents And Curiosities And Oddities And Troubles And Sicknesses And Begin To See More In Those Things Than We Saw Before. It Raises Questions, So That When Peculiar Little Accidents Happen, You Ask Whether There Is Something Else At Work In Your Life.

Food Is So Fundamental, More So Than Sexuality, Aggression, Or Learning, That It Is Astounding To Realize The Neglect Of Food And Eating In Depth Psychology.

I Like To Imagine A Person's Psyche To Be Like A Boardinghouse Full Of Characters. The Ones Who Show Up Regularly And Who Habitually Follow The House Rules May Not Have Met Other Long-term Residents Who Stay Behind Closed Doors, Or Who Only Appear At Night. An Adequate Theory Of Character Must Make Room For Character Actors, For The Stuntmen And Animal Handlers, For All The Figures Who Play Bit Parts And Produce Unexpected Acts. They Often Make The Show Fateful, Or Tragic, Or Farcically Absurd.