Your unconscious wants to express the pain you feel about your own lost innocence. But your ego wants to keep it repress — Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?
Your unconscious wants to express the pain you feel about your own lost innocence. But your ego wants to keep it repress — Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?
Your unconscious wants to express the pain you feel about your own lost innocence. But your ego wants to keep it repress — Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?
Your unconscious wants to express the pain you feel about your own lost innocence. But your ego wants to keep it repress — Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?
Your unconscious wants to express the pain you feel about your own lost innocence. But your ego wants to keep it repress — Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?
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Your unconscious wants to express the pain you feel about your own lost innocence. But your ego wants to keep it repressed. To the compromise is anxiety.

— Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?
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