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“Jack's instinct to protect himself might have been the most alien thing I'd ever encountered. I'd never had a wound - emotional or physical - that I didn't probe repeatedly.”

Book:Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me

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“Psychologists and philosophers created a world where anxiety, fear and struggle are the norm, where happiness and peace are impossible to attain or available only to the most adept after long torment, and where existence is, above all, futile. In this world, people must constantly struggle with and repress what is supposedly their true nature for an end that is, at best, an abstract morality. Any outside assistance is impossible as all interpersonal interactions are also a continual existential struggle. Every outside person can only be the subject or the subjugated in this world, and all love is simply object desire. Existence here has no joy, no connection and no purpose. The happy ending is death.”

Inspirational Self Science Humanity Psychology Society Mankind Identity Sociology Neurosis

Book:The Creation of Me, Them and Us

Source: The Creation of Me, Them and Us

“He understands, with a feeling inside him like a wind whipping through a room, that when we lose the stories we have believed about ourselves, we are losing more than stories, we are losing ourselves.”

Self Stories Perception Beliefs Self Image Self Perception

Book:Arcadia

Source: Arcadia

“That thing called intuition... trust it or don’t. Either way you will go your going to grow.”

Self Quote Intuition

Author:Positively Sherry

“The answer to the riddle posed by identity groups is that they are one entity and their identity is that of their ideal. There can be no shared identity among people, as each person is unique.”

Inspirational Self Science Humanity Psychology Society Mankind Identity Sociology Neurosis

Book:The Creation of Me, Them and Us

Source: The Creation of Me, Them and Us

“People often make faces, in private, in front of bathroom mirrors, to convince themselves of their own attractiveness. The ‘lively belief that an unseen audience is present,’ Goffman writes, can have a significant effect.”

Self Identity Internet

Book:Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

Source: Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

“A self is not consciousness and a self is not life. A self is the unique positioning of an individual relative to society. Self is a wholly social creation.”

Inspirational Self Science Humanity Psychology Society Mankind Identity Sociology Neurosis

Book:The Creation of Me, Them and Us

Source: The Creation of Me, Them and Us

“The field of psychology has been less than successful at explaining human behaviour. It has been far less successful at establishing a normative ideal for human development.”

Inspirational Self Science Humanity Psychology Society Mankind Identity Sociology Neurosis

Book:The Creation of Me, Them and Us

Source: The Creation of Me, Them and Us

“Goffman observed that we need both an audience to witness our performance as well as a backstage area where we can relax, often in the company of 'teammates' who had been performing alongside us.”

Self Audience

Book:Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

Source: Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

“All you have to do is give people what they want, reflect themselves back into their own eyes, and they will fall over to crush money into your outstretched hand.”

Self Reflection

Book:The Portrait

Source: The Portrait

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