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but in my opinion childhood is more fraught and more intense in every important way. Childhood makes us: it's when we learn how to attach to people, and develop our deepest traumas; it's when we develop a formative view of the world that often shapes our expectations for the rest of our life.
on obsessionWe obsess as a way of mastering our desire: as Caroline Knapp writes in Appetite, “This was the infinite hunger for love and recognition, the hunger for sex and satisfaction and beauty, the hunger to be and known and fed, the hunger to take and take, and I had conquered it, mastered it, roped it like a steer."
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