{"id":8520,"date":"2014-08-05T19:41:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T19:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=8520"},"modified":"2014-08-06T16:51:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T16:51:07","slug":"more-from-adam-phillips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/05\/more-from-adam-phillips\/","title":{"rendered":"i&#8217;m the kind of person who"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>adam phillips interview in the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/6286\/the-art-of-nonfiction-no-7-adam-phillips\" target=\"_blank\">paris review<\/a><\/em> (bolding my own):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">PHILLIPS<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s really showing you how much your wish to know yourself is a consequence of an anxiety state\u2014and how it might be to live as yourself not knowing much about what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">INTERVIEWER<\/p>\n<p>And how much perhaps you need to live that way, not knowing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">PHILLIPS<\/p>\n<p>Or that there\u2019s no other way <em>to <\/em>live. That\u2019s what\u2019s happening anyway, actually, but it\u2019s concealed or covered up or assuaged partly by fantasies of knowing who we are. <strong>When people say, \u201cI\u2019m the kind of person who,\u201d my heart always sinks. These are formulas, we\u2019ve all got about ten formulas about who we are, what we like, the kind of people we like, all that stuff. The disparity between these phrases and how one experiences oneself minute by minute is ludicrous.<\/strong> It\u2019s like the caption under a painting. You think, Well, yeah, I can see it\u2019s called that. But you need to look at the picture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>adam phillips interview in the paris review (bolding my own): PHILLIPS It\u2019s really showing you how much your wish to know yourself is a consequence of an anxiety state\u2014and how it might be to live as yourself not knowing much about what\u2019s going on. INTERVIEWER And how much perhaps you need to live that way, [&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-8520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8520","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=8520"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8529,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8520\/revisions\/8529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}