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 horses neck,
And the eyes watchful, waiting, perceiving indifferent.
O hidden under the dovers wing, hidden in the turtles 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, worryingas a reflex response to demandnever 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)