{"id":8517,"date":"2014-08-05T19:35:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T19:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=8517"},"modified":"2016-08-27T03:21:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T03:21:28","slug":"the-need-to-not-know-youself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/05\/the-need-to-not-know-youself\/","title":{"rendered":"recover your appetite, and appetites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from adam phillips&#8217; interview in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/6286\/the-art-of-nonfiction-no-7-adam-phillips\" target=\"_blank\">paris review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">PHILLIPS<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Analysis should do two things that are linked together. It should be about the recovery of appetite, and the need not to know yourself. And these two things\u2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">INTERVIEWER<\/p>\n<p>The need <em>not <\/em>to know yourself?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">PHILLIPS<\/p>\n<p>The need not to know yourself. Symptoms are forms of self-knowledge. <strong>When you think, I\u2019m agoraphobic, I\u2019m a shy person, whatever it may be, these are forms of self-knowledge. What psychoanalysis, at its best, does is cure you of your self-knowledge. And of your wish to know yourself in that coherent, narrative way. You can only recover your appetite, and appetites, if you can allow yourself to be unknown to yourself.<\/strong> Because the point of knowing oneself is to contain one\u2019s anxieties about appetite. It\u2019s only worth knowing about the things that make one\u2019s life worth living, and whether there are in fact things that make it worth living.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from adam phillips&#8217; interview in the paris review: PHILLIPS Analysis should do two things that are linked together. It should be about the recovery of appetite, and the need not to know yourself. And these two things\u2014 INTERVIEWER The need not to know yourself? PHILLIPS The need not to know yourself. Symptoms are forms of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8517"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11745,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8517\/revisions\/11745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}