"I think that it would be possible to have pictures of good lives that aren't set up to make one fail; a more realistic idea as opposed to an ideal would be one that is genuanly attainable."
"What we are talking about are fictions rather than ideals."
"What we are talking about are ideas that are transformable rather than ideals that you have to comply with."
"Cultural ideals are set up to humiliate us."
Check out this short video from Adam Phillips. I don't know what the hell my soul is, but I think he might be speaking to it.
