Num Lock Function

Famous quotes containing the words lock and/or function:

    then take off your flesh,
    unpick the lock of your bones.
    In other words
    take off the wall
    that separates you from God.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    As a medium of exchange,... worrying regulates intimacy, and it is often an appropriate response to ordinary demands that begin to feel excessive. But from a modernized Freudian view, worrying—as a reflex response to demand—never puts the self or the objects of its interest into question, and that is precisely its function in psychic life. It domesticates self-doubt.
    Adam Phillips, British child psychoanalyst. “Worrying and Its Discontents,” in On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored, p. 58, Harvard University Press (1993)