It's been my experience and the experience of so many of my patients that these wounds flare up whenever we are in close and
intense contact with our families.
Most fights between partners who like each other and intend to stay together are a symptom of the desire for
more intense contact.
No matter how well adjusted some of us become in our everyday lives, coming back
into intense contact with our families of origin can thrust some of us into some serious emotional dysregulation.
In his quest for friendship, François at least has the advantages common to men, whose «erotic potential diminishes very slowly as they age,» giving them prolonged access to the ephemeral but
intense contacts of liberated sex.
The influence of those members frequently
in intense contact with each other is often explicable and predictable.
«But these instances involve
very intense contact, where a parent might be taking care of an infected child.»
These changes are part of our ever - increasing globalization — a process that is shrinking our planet and bringing us all into
more intense contact with one another, often across lines of social, cultural, and racial differences.
Several drawings feature cascades of pencil markings, subtle gradations, erasures, and other evidence of Twombly's
intense contact with the paper.
But where did
that intense contact begin?
OLIVIER ZAHM — What have you gotten out of seven months of intimate,
intense contact with the hundred musicians you invited to play and record at the French Pavilion at the Venice Biennale?