We see nobody clearly. We see only the ghosts of absent others, and mistake for reality the fictions we construct from b — Patrick McGrath, Trauma
We see nobody clearly. We see only the ghosts of absent others, and mistake for reality the fictions we construct from b — Patrick McGrath, Trauma
We see nobody clearly. We see only the ghosts of absent others, and mistake for reality the fictions we construct from b — Patrick McGrath, Trauma
We see nobody clearly. We see only the ghosts of absent others, and mistake for reality the fictions we construct from b — Patrick McGrath, Trauma
We see nobody clearly. We see only the ghosts of absent others, and mistake for reality the fictions we construct from b — Patrick McGrath, Trauma
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We see nobody clearly. We see only the ghosts of absent others, and mistake for reality the fictions we construct from blueprints drawn up in early childhood. This is the problem.

— Patrick McGrath, Trauma
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