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Response: Psychoanalysis Re: "happiness is a transitory state"

Bill Lear wrote:

So, our chains become part of us, and attempts to break the chains
therefore hurt?

They not only become part of us, they made us.

Doug

Very true, but does the fact that we can conceptualize and grasp that we
are partly the product of the chains and backwardness that bind us not
suggest the possibility of transcendence or at least of not accepting
such chains as limits or a fait accompli?

Jim C.
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