"Freud [suggests] that attention is primarily, if not essentially, already thoroughly censored (or selective, as we more blandly say). That looking is a way of stopping us seeing; that talking is a way of stopping us speaking; that listening is a way of stopping ourselves hearing. That what we call attending is a process of motivated exclusion; that we concentrate and focus in order to occlude and temper what we might see.
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"Psychoanalysis tracks what attention wants and doesn't want to omit."
Adam Phillips, in Attention Seeking [pg 96]
Zerkalo (The Mirror) 1975 - Second scene
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