Famous quotes containing the words valued, function and/or defined:
“It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“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)
“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”
—G.M. (George Macaulay)