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The Divided Self( An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness)[DIVIDED SELF REV/E][Paperback]
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“[...] The complaint he made all along was that he could not become a 'person'. He had 'no self. 'I am only a response to other people, I have no identity of my own.' (We shall have occasion to describe in detail later the sense of not being one's true self, of living a false self [Chapters 5, 6].) He felt he was becoming more and more 'a mythical person'. He felt he had no weight, no substance of his own. 'I am only a cork floating on the ocean.' [...] 'I was merely her emblem. She never recognized my identity.' In contrast to his own belittlement of and uncertainty about himself, he was always on the brink of being overawed and crushed by the formidable reality that other people contained. [Ontological insecurity: James, a chemist]”
― The Divided Self( An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness)[DIVIDED SELF REV/E][Paperback]
― The Divided Self( An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness)[DIVIDED SELF REV/E][Paperback]
“[...] 'There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive.' The need to gain a conviction of his own aliveness and the realness of things is, therefore, the basic issue in his existence His way of seeking to gain such conviction is by feeling himself to be an object in the real world; but, since his world is unreal, he must be an object in the world of someone else, for objects to other people seem to be real, and even calm and beautiful. At least, '...it must be so, for I often hear people talking about them as though they were'. Hence it is that he makes his confession '...don't be angry if I tell you that it is the aim of my life to get people to look at me' [Self-consciousness]”
― The Divided Self( An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness)[DIVIDED SELF REV/E][Paperback]
― The Divided Self( An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness)[DIVIDED SELF REV/E][Paperback]
“Depersonalization is a technique that is universally used as a means of dealing with the other when he becomes too tiresome or disturbing. One no longer allows oneself to be responsive to his feelings and may be prepared to regard him and treat him as though he had no feelings. The people in focus here both tend to feel themselves as more or less depersonalized and tend to depersonalize others; they are constantly afraid of being depersonalized by others. The act of turning him into a thing is, for him, actually petrifying. In the face of being treated as an 'it', his own subjectivity drains away from him like blood from the face. Basically he requires constant confirmation from others of his own existence as a person [Ontological insecurity - Petrification and depersonalization]”
― The Divided Self( An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness)[DIVIDED SELF REV/E][Paperback]
― The Divided Self( An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness)[DIVIDED SELF REV/E][Paperback]
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