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title: "229 Sense Self Quotes by 192 authors"
description: "Browse 229 Sense Self quotes by 192 authors. Discover the best Sense Self sayings and thoughts."
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> [Do you have no sense of self-preservation?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nalini-singh/do-you-have-no-sense-of-self-preservation/)

[Nalini Singh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nalini-singh/)

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> [narcissists ... have the least sense of self of anybody on the planet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-c-salter/narcissists-have-the-least-sense-of-self-of-anybody-on-the-planet/)

[Anna C Salter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-c-salter/)

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> [Can I live a life, daily life, without sense of self-concern?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jiddu-krishnamurti/can-i-live-a-life-daily-life-without-sense-of-self-concern/)

[Jiddu Krishnamurti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jiddu-krishnamurti/)

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> [I'm self-opinionated and I have a sense of self.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-eenhoorn/i-m-self-opinionated-and-i-have-a-sense-of-self/)

[Paul Eenhoorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-eenhoorn/)

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> [To me, redneck is a sense of self and a way of life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretchen-wilson/to-me-redneck-is-a-sense-of-self-and-a-way-of-life/)

[Gretchen Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretchen-wilson/)

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> [A man's sense of self is defined through his ability to achieve results.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-gray/a-man-s-sense-of-self-is-defined-through-his-ability-to-achieve/)

[John Gray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-gray/)

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> [I know who I am. I have a very strong sense of self.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kristen-stewart/i-know-who-i-am-i-have-a-very-strong-sense-of-self/)

[Kristen Stewart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kristen-stewart/)

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> [I don't have a strong sense of self-worth unless I'm doing something.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gwen-stefani/i-don-t-have-a-strong-sense-of-self-worth-unless-i-m-doing-something/)

[Gwen Stefani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gwen-stefani/)

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> [There is no point in spending time with someone who makes you forget your sense of self.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sangram-singh/there-is-no-point-in-spending-time-with-someone-who-makes-you-forget/)

[Sangram Singh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sangram-singh/)

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> [I learned that gender identity runs very deep in all of us, very near the center of our sense of self and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norah-vincent/i-learned-that-gender-identity-runs-very-deep-in-all-of-us-very-near/)

[Norah Vincent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norah-vincent/)

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> [The everyday, familiar sense of self who lives in time, and that dimension which we've called presence, that is always here, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-housden/the-everyday-familiar-sense-of-self-who-lives-in-time-and-that/)

[Roger Housden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-housden/)

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> [“Man, I put myself in a lot of comic strips. Something's wrong with my sense of self.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephan-pastis/man-i-put-myself-in-a-lot-of-comic-strips-something-s-wrong-with-my/)

[Stephan Pastis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephan-pastis/)

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> [A woman's sense of self is defined through her feelings and the quality of her relationships.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-gray/a-woman-s-sense-of-self-is-defined-through-her-feelings-and-the/)

[John Gray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-gray/)

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> [When we turn our gaze to the inside, it becomes difficult to locate this familiar sense of self. To overcome that fear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-housden/when-we-turn-our-gaze-to-the-inside-it-becomes-difficult-to-locate/)

[Roger Housden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-housden/)

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> [“Your entire sense of self-worth is predicated upon your belief that you matter, that you matter to the universe.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shaun-david-hutchinson/your-entire-sense-of-self-worth-is-predicated-upon-your-belief-that/)

[Shaun David Hutchinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shaun-david-hutchinson/)

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> [“We create our sense of self by merging our fragmented thoughts in a coherent conception of our being.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kilroy-j-oldster/we-create-our-sense-of-self-by-merging-our-fragmented-thoughts-in-a/)

[Kilroy J. Oldster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kilroy-j-oldster/)

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> [“If there's no sense of self, there's no sense of culture. If there's no sense of wisdom, there's no sense of progress.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-johnson-jr/if-there-s-no-sense-of-self-there-s-no-sense-of-culture-if-there-s-no/)

[Henry Johnson Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-johnson-jr/)

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> [No matter what, I need to maintain my sense of self and always be true to who I am. And that while…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-collins/no-matter-what-i-need-to-maintain-my-sense-of-self-and-always-be-true-2/)

[Lily Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-collins/)

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> [With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoff-mulgan/with-a-fractured-sense-of-self-we-come-to-depend-on-what-people-feed/)

[Geoff Mulgan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoff-mulgan/)

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> [If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/if-the-ego-is-not-regularly-and-repeatedly-dissolved-in-the-unbounded/)

[Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/)

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> [I've learned through the years how to base my identity and sense of self-worth on myself and not others. I've learned the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-chan/i-ve-learned-through-the-years-how-to-base-my-identity-and-sense-of/)

[Amy Chan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-chan/)

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> [“Our negative sense of self has been replaced by a positive concern for others. Answers are provided, and problems are solved. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/narcotics-anonymous-fellowship/our-negative-sense-of-self-has-been-replaced-by-a-positive-concern/)

[Narcotics Anonymous Fellowship](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/narcotics-anonymous-fellowship/)

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> [It's a new stage and a new moment in my life. I'm moving forward. It feels quite inspiring, fun, and positive. As…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessica-biel/it-s-a-new-stage-and-a-new-moment-in-my-life-i-m-moving-forward-it/)

[Jessica Biel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessica-biel/)

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> [...I sense that stepping into the light is also a powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth of the knowing mind, for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonio-damasio/i-sense-that-stepping-into-the-light-is-also-a-powerful-metaphor-for/)

[Antonio Damasio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonio-damasio/)

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> [Healing from our past is an essential aspect of expanding our sense of self and awakening our capacity to love. This shift…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-simon/healing-from-our-past-is-an-essential-aspect-of-expanding-our-sense/)

[David Simon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-simon/)

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> [The ego, as our familiar sense of self, seems predicated on fear. The fear that we might not make it, that we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-housden/the-ego-as-our-familiar-sense-of-self-seems-predicated-on-fear-the/)

[Roger Housden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-housden/)

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> [“I had lost confidence and a sense of self. Who am I? Am I a person who cowers in fear at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susannah-cahalan/i-had-lost-confidence-and-a-sense-of-self-who-am-i-am-i-a-person-who/)

[Susannah Cahalan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susannah-cahalan/)

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> [The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-giddens/the-body-is-an-object-in-which-we-are-all-privileged-or-doomed-to/)

[Anthony Giddens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-giddens/)

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> [“If you are a self-possessed man with a healthy sense of detachment from your bank account and someone writes you a cheque…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-lewis/if-you-are-a-self-possessed-man-with-a-healthy-sense-of-detachment/)

[Michael Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-lewis/)

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> [“Recovering is a process of coming to experience a sense of self. More precisely, it is a process of learning to sense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheila-m-reindl/recovering-is-a-process-of-coming-to-experience-a-sense-of-self-more/)

[Sheila M. Reindl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheila-m-reindl/)

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> [“we have come to depend on the instant rush of energy and delight we feel when we display our cleverness by making…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/we-have-come-to-depend-on-the-instant-rush-of-energy-and-delight-we/)

[Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-armstrong/)

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> [We could decide simply to remain absorbed in the mysterious, unformed, free-play of reality. This would be the choice of the mystic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-batchelor/we-could-decide-simply-to-remain-absorbed-in-the-mysterious-unformed/)

[Stephen Batchelor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-batchelor/)

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> [“The first thing to remember is this: As long as you make an identity for yourself out of the pain, you cannot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/the-first-thing-to-remember-is-this-as-long-as-you-make-an-identity/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

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> [“There comes a point when you realize that these things, these brands, aren't "enough." Having more or better or best doesn't provide…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/debbie-millman/there-comes-a-point-when-you-realize-that-these-things-these-brands/)

[Debbie Millman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/debbie-millman/)

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> [When you find yourself trapped between what moves you and what society tells you is right for you, always travel the route…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/unkown/when-you-find-yourself-trapped-between-what-moves-you-and-what/)

[Unkown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/unkown/)

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> [“Questioning this most dearly held core of the Dutch sense of self not only is felt as a direct attack, it also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-wekker/questioning-this-most-dearly-held-core-of-the-dutch-sense-of-self-not/)

[Gloria Wekker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-wekker/)

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> [“Like the turtle's shell, the sense of self serves as a shield against stimulation and as a burden which limits mobility into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/luke-rhinehart/like-the-turtle-s-shell-the-sense-of-self-serves-as-a-shield-against/)

[Luke Rhinehart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/luke-rhinehart/)

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> [“The child (mis)recognizes itself as a whole entity for the first time. It sees an image of itself as a unified person,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenn-ward/the-child-mis-recognizes-itself-as-a-whole-entity-for-the-first-time/)

[Glenn Ward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glenn-ward/)

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> [“...afflictions arise from identifying with a false sense of self, whereas great contentment arises from seeing the true nature of things. If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karma-lekshe-tsomo/afflictions-arise-from-identifying-with-a-false-sense-of-self-whereas/)

[Karma Lekshe Tsomo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karma-lekshe-tsomo/)

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> [“I'm sure there was some bloated-ego thing happening that I wasn't able to recognize, but I didn't feel like it would last…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-kiedis/i-m-sure-there-was-some-bloated-ego-thing-happening-that-i-wasn-t/)

[Anthony Kiedis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-kiedis/)

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## Top authors on Sense Self

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-frederick-lenz-36205.jpg) Frederick Lenz 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/sense-self/frederick-lenz/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-eckhart-tolle-31242.jpg) Eckhart Tolle 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/sense-self/eckhart-tolle/)

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                        "text": "...I sense that stepping into the light is also a powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth of the knowing mind, for the simple and yet momentous coming of the sense of self into the world of the mental.",
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                        "text": "Healing from our past is an essential aspect of expanding our sense of self and awakening our capacity to love. This shift often manifests as a change in the questions we've been asking ourselves. Instead of What do I need? we ask, How can I serve? Instead of What am I getting out of this? we start to ask, What can I bring to this situation to promote the highest possible outcome for everyone involved?",
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                        "text": "The ego, as our familiar sense of self, seems predicated on fear. The fear that we might not make it, that we might not get where we want to go. But deep down there is also a grain of fear that we have nothing to give or nothing to offer. I think that's the ego's justifiable anxiety about its substantiality and existence.",
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                        "text": "“I had lost confidence and a sense of self. Who am I? Am I a person who cowers in fear at the back of a spin class, avoiding everyone’s gaze? This uncertainty about who I am, this confusion over where I truly was in the time line of my illness and recovery, was ultimately the deeper source of the shame. A part of my soul believed that I would never be myself, the carefree, confident Susannah, again.”",
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                        "text": "The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and pleasure, but also the site of illnesses and strains. (...) [I]t is an action-system, a mode of praxis, and its practical immersion in the interactions of day-to-day life is an essential part of the sustaining of a coherent sense of self-identity.",
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                        "text": "“If you are a self-possessed man with a healthy sense of detachment from your bank account and someone writes you a cheque for tens of millions of dollars you probably behave as if you have won a sweepstake, kicking your feet in the air and laughing yourself to sleep at night at the miracle of your good fortune. But if your sense of self-worth is morbidly wrapped up in your financial success you probably believe you deserve everything you get. You take it as a reflection of something grand inside you. You acquire gravitas,”",
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                        "text": "“Recovering is a process of coming to experience a sense of self. More precisely, it is a process of learning to sense one's self, to attune to one's subjective physical, psychic, and social self- experience. These woman's core sense of shame and their difficulty tolerating painful emotions had led them to avoid turning their attention inward to their internal sense of things. In recovering, they \"came to their senses\" and learned to trust their sensed experience, in particular their sense of \"enoughness\"\".”",
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                        "text": "“we have come to depend on the instant rush of energy and delight we feel when we display our cleverness by making an unkind remark and the spurt of triumph when we vanquish an annoying colleague. Thus do we assert ourselves and tell the world who we are. It is difficult to break a habit upon which we depend for our sense of self.”",
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                        "text": "We could decide simply to remain absorbed in the mysterious, unformed, free-play of reality. This would be the choice of the mystic who seeks to extinguish himself in God or Nirvana—analogous perhaps to the tendency among artists to obliterate themselves with alcohol or opiates. But if we value our participation in a shared reality in which it makes sense to make sense, then such self-abnegation would deny a central element of our humanity: the need to speak and act, to share our experience with others.",
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                        "text": "“The first thing to remember is this: As long as you make an identity for yourself out of the pain, you cannot become free of it. As long as part of your sense of self is invested in your emotional pain, you will unconsciously resist or sabotage every attempt that you make to heal that pain. Why? Quite simply because you want to keep yourself intact, and the pain has become an essential part of you. This is an unconscious process, and the only way to overcome it is to make it conscious. To suddenly see that you are or have been attached to your pain can be quite a shocking realization. The moment you realize this, you have broken the attachment. The pain-body is an energy field, almost like an entity, that has become temporarily lodged in your inner space. It is life energy that has become trapped, energy that is no longer flowing. Of course, the pain-body is there because of certain things that happened in the past. It is the living past in you, and if you identify with it, you identify with the past. A victim identity is the belief that the past is more powerful than the present, which is the opposite of the truth. It is the belief that other people and what they did to you are responsible for who you are now, for your emotional pain or your inability to be your true self. The truth is that the only power there is is contained within this moment: It is the power of your presence. Once you know that, you also realize that you are responsible for your inner space now — nobody else is — and that the past cannot prevail against the power of the Now. So identification prevents you from dealing with the pain-body.”",
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                        "text": "When you find yourself trapped between what moves you and what society tells you is right for you, always travel the route that makes you feel alive unless you want everyone to be happy, except you. No matter where life takes you, big cities or small towns, you will inevitably come across others who think they know whats best for you people who think theyre better than you people who think happiness, success and beauty mean the same things to everyone. Theyll try to measure your worth based on what you have, instead of who you are. But you know better than that material things dont matter. Dont chase the money. Catch up to the ideas and activities that make you come alive. Go for the things of greater value the things money cant buy. What matters is having strength of character, an honest heart, and a sense of self-worth. If youre lucky enough to have any of these things, never sell them. Never sell yourself short.",
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                        "text": "“Questioning this most dearly held core of the Dutch sense of self not only is felt as a direct attack, it also means that the nonbeliever, the antiracist killjoy, is putting himself or herself above “us,” which in itself again runs deeply counter to another strand in the Dutch sense of self: “gelijke monnikken, gelijke kappen” (literally, equal monks, equal cowls), which invokes the deep egalitarian strand in Dutch self-representation. Critical self-reflection, moreover and ironically, is a scarce commodity in a culture that delights in imagining itself as “nothing,” “just normal” (Ramdas 1998), without specific characteristics, much less infused with deep racializations. The point of not knowing, racial ignorance, and innocence has long passed.”",
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                        "text": "“Like the turtle's shell, the sense of self serves as a shield against stimulation and as a burden which limits mobility into possibly dangerous areas. The turtle rarely has to think about what's on the other side of his shell; whatever it is, it can't hurt him, can't even touch him. So, too, adults insist on the shell of a consistent self for themselves and their children and appreciate turtles for friends; they wish to be protected from being hurt or touched or confused or having to think. If a man can rely on consistency, he can afford not to notice people after the first few times. But I imagined a world in which each individual might be about to play the lover, the benefactor, the sponger, the attacker, the friend: and once known as one of the next day he might yet be anything. Would we pay attention to this person? Would life be boring? Would life be livable? I saw then clearly for the first time that the fear of failure keeps us huddled in the cave of self - a group of behavior patterns we have mastered and have no intention of risking failure by abandoning.”",
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                        "text": "“The child (mis)recognizes itself as a whole entity for the first time. It sees an image of itself as a unified person, an image which promises for the child that it will soon achieve full co-ordination of its body. The incoherent ‘hommelette’ sees an image of itself as an independent being and learns to identify with this image. This is when the ego (the sense of yourself as an individual) is formed. Thus, your sense of self is fundamentally bound up with an ‘exterior’ image. Instead of simply coming from within, your identity is formed out of a situation in which you see yourself for the first time from the outside. For Lacan this means that alienation and division are built into your identity from the outset. The result in adult life is that you are in a constant but fruitless state of desire for some mythical inner unity and stability to match the unity and stability you thought you saw in your childhood reflection. We spend our lives trying (and failing) to make ourselves ‘whole’.”",
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