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“Our ego ideal is precious to us because it repairs a loss of our earlier childhood, the loss of our image of self as perfect and whole, the loss of a major portion of our infantile, limitless, ain't-I-wonderful narcissism which we had to give up in the face of compelling reality. Modified and reshaped into ethical goals and moral standards and a vision of what at our finest we might be, our dream of perfection lives on--our lost narcissism lives on--in our ego ideal.”

Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

“Of what is real I say, Is it the old, the roseate parent or The bride come jingling, kissed and cupped, or else The spirit and all ensigns of the self?”

Real Self Reality Spirit Parent Realism Brides

Book:The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

“The reality of the individualis an incoherent reality and must be expressed incoherently.”

Author:Samuel Beckett

“Over against any cognition, there is an unknown but knowable reality; but over against all possible cognition, there is only the self-contradictory. In short, cognizability (in its widest sense) and being are not merely metaphysically the same, but are synonymous terms.”

Self Reality Term Realism Contradictory Cognition

Book:Peirce on Signs: Writings on Semiotic

Source: Peirce on Signs: Writings on Semiotic

“As a mode of perception that often becomes a style of life, paranoia weaves around the vulnerable self or group an air-tight metaphysic and world view. Paranoia is an antireligious mysticism based on the feeling or perception that the world in general, and others in particular, are against me or us. Reality is perceived as hostile. By contrast, the religious mystic experiences the ground of being as basically friendly to the deepest needs of the self. That which is unknown, strange, or beyond our comprehension is with and for rather than against us.”

World Needs Self Feelings Reality Religious Views Groups Air Style Particular Strange Perception Vulnerable Friendly Mysticism Contrast Hostile Comprehension Mystic Paranoia World View

Author:Sam Keen