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This is most strange,

That she whom even but now was your best object,

The argument of your praise, balm of your age,

The best, the dearest, should in this trice of time

Commit a thing so monstrous to dismande

So many folds of favor.

—France to Lear, in King Lear

Being a self with others entails a constant dialectic

between attachment and self-definition, between

connection and differentiation, a continual negotiation

between one’s wishes and will and the wishes and will

of others, between one’s own subjective reality and

a consensual reality of others with whom one lives.

—Stephen Mitchell, Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis