Quotes About Engulfment

In personal relationships, the false self promises to defend against the intimacy that could lead to engulfment or the pains of abandonment by substituting fantasy relationships with unavailable partners for real relationships. On the job, the false self assures the person that he can avoid the conflicts and anxiety that would come from honest self-assertion with authority figures and peers, competition, and discipline by not working up to his full capacity or ability.

There is no such thing as doing nothing. There is no such thing as neutral or uninvolved. At every moment, social life involves all of us.

Engulfment is a moment of hypnosis.

The crisis of engulfment can come from a wound

The crisis of engulfment can come from a wound but also from a fusion: we die together from loving each other: an open death, by dilution into the ether, a closed death of the shared grave.

Being able to disappear into every film that I do really works in my favor.

Come on, Pandora, open your belly, and digest me; This thing is amusing, but digest me.

No se obran milagros en el mundo, lo único que no comprendo es la muerte, ese engullimiento en un abismo sombrío y denso donde se pierden los sentimientos y la conciencia. ¿Acaso es un milagro? No, es poco probable: es metafísica.

Walking into the crowd was like sinking into a stew - you became an ingredient, you took on a certain flavour.

I've always been the sort of person who immerses myself in things, and eventually you become part of that life.

I am not talking about you being a spectator, I am talking about involvement. I am talking about involving yourself into life in such a way that you dissolve into it.

It's everywhere. It's right on top of us. It coils around us like a snake. We're all inside it. It's already swallowed us whole.

I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.

You are not an observer, you are a participant.

I submerged into it like a ritual bath and let it close over my head gladly. I wanted to stop my ears and my eyes and my mouth with it.

We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.

The sand murmurs that it wants to swallow everything.

I was like a trashcan. I took everything.

There are, apparently, persons who are deeply afraid of their own emotions, particularly the painful ones. Grief, regret, sadness. Sadness especially, perhaps. Dolores describes these persons as afraid of obliteration, emotional engulfment. As if something truly and thoroughly felt would have no end or bottom. Would become infinite and engulf them.' 'Engulf means obliterate.

A continual tug-of-war develops between the wish to merge and be taken care of, on the one hand, and the fear of engulfment, on the other. For

If she was liquid, she would drink her; if she was a gas, she would breathe her; if she was a pill, she would down her'; if she was a dress, she would wear her; a plate, she would lick her clean.

It did something else that art is supposed to do. Absorb you.