When there is somethng you cannot forget about your life.

For the psychiatric patient the  most disabling insights are the ones he cannot forget;
 and for the psychoanalyst,  the most misleading theories are the ones he cannot
do without.

People come for psychoanalysis when there is something they cannot forget,
something they cannot stop telling themselves about their lives.

And these dismaying repetitions – this unconscious limiting or coercion of
the repertoire of lives and life-stories – create the illusion of time having stopped.
In our repetitions we seem to be staying away from the future, keeping it at bay.
What are called symptoms are these (failed) attempts at closure,
at calling a halt to something. Like provisional deaths, they are spurious