Perceiving Function

Famous quotes containing the words perceiving and/or function:

    Look
    There he is now, look:
    There is no interrogation in his eyes
    Or in the hands, quiet over the horse’s neck,
    And the eyes watchful, waiting, perceiving indifferent.
    O hidden under the dover’s wing, hidden in the turtle’s breast....
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    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)