FastSaying

...telling doesn't help me - it helps you. As Wilde says, It is the confession, not the priest, that gives absolution...

John Geddes

John Geddes

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Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.
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...maybe I am just your priest - or a churl - perhaps you mistrust me the way the medievals mistrusted monks...
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In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God.
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desperate times offered a certain flexibility in the rules of absolution.
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