| It will strengthen your true independence, so that being appreciated by others will no longer be the | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| of your life -- not faultlessly, not by being free of all failure, not excluding the possibility | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| saves you from annihilation. It will, therefore, cease being self-centered. Your own capacity to love will combine | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| you will communicate in love and understanding while being truly independent. Love, power, and serenity will not | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| be a substitute for the frustration of not being able to receive the pleasure one yearns for | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| its wake further distortions. Certain faults come into being, according to one's character structure; for instance, avarice | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| every form of creativity at all levels of being. In its healthy form, it makes you reach | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| poison. In distortion, the following tendencies come into being, again according to character structure: acquisitiveness; reaching out | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| more tragic because the psyche falsely believes that being self-centered will preserve its safety, or satisfy its | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| from the truth. Nothing induces greater insecurity than being egocentric. Egocentricity calls for fixed, prescribed behavior patterns | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| reactions hidden deep within yourself. Both soul currents, being utterly self-centered, prohibit you from experiencing and dealing | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| feel as though your value as a human being, your dignity, is at stake. However, you may | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| reaction to little incidents, such as a person being unfriendly or unpleasant one day. Not being greeted | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| person being unfriendly or unpleasant one day. Not being greeted may seem like a defeat. Though you | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| are the real reason for one's anger, defeat being inadmissible. If these emotional reactions are allowed to | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| nothing but blame that they prevent you from being as you think you should be. Of course | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| you could never be prevented by others from being what you are. But the idealized self-image pretends | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| you to act upon them. This is constantly being misunderstood. People often conclude, incorrectly, that to recognize | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| even outwardly right and cannot be rationalized as being up to the spiritual standards one wants to | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| next goal will present itself. This is like being a wanderer or a mountain climber. If you | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| dangers are imagined and unrealistic. When a human being feels threatened by not being loved, admired, approved | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| When a human being feels threatened by not being loved, admired, approved of or agreed with, the | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| yearning for pleasure supreme on all levels of being. When, due to life circumstances on the one | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| for love is supposed to solve all problems. Being nonassertive, giving in, can be damaging by leaving | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| This rebellion, when reaching the outer levels of being, may take on various forms. If the pleasure-supreme | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| will be released only on certain levels of being. You may feel that spiritual, intellectual, or mental | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| failure actually results from withholding outgoing forces and being unwilling to risk giving of yourself. Such an | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| love and pleasure in the unconscious belief that being omnipotent, strong, invulnerable will bring love and devotion | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| over others induce love, for other people resent being made to feel inferior and will certainly not | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| words, their self-effacement is offered in return for being loved. Because their self-effacement takes the place of | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| your potential faculties on all levels of your being. The first emotional level of awareness usually will | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| will begin to take place. You will cease being -- inwardly or outwardly -- aggressive where it | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| would like to ask about all three distortions being simultaneously present in one person. Do they alternate | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| personality? ANSWER: Of course, the healthier a human being is, the weaker the idealized self-image. It may | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| the real self. Since there is no human being who is entirely free of inner distortions and | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| action, is one thing. But spiritual living, feeling, being, and inner experience is an altogether different matter | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| one time the human entity was a whole being, completely integrated, in harmony, without conflict, without contradictions | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your idealized self-image? While you struggle within yourself, being at war with yourself, you nevertheless wish to | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| happen along with the real values that are being attained and lived up to. But it is | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| causing sadness, but rather the opposite, while still being in a state of restlessness, inner haste, impatience | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| some degree. It is true that the whole being of the spirit entity, in a very substantial | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it. It creates the false guilt of not being as good and obedient as the submissive attitude | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| up to your fantasies of glory, of not being strong and powerful, but actually cringing. And it | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| obvious, but perhaps not to you. QUESTION: Does being born out of wedlock have an effect on | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to please and appease a more powerful person, being, or authority. Obedience to authority has been encouraged | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| and I will be rewarded with happiness for being an obedient little child. Since God does not | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| same token, if you encounter in a human being overemphasis on independence, hostile domineering tendencies, toughness, and | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| motivated by the inner subjective disappointment of not being taken care of. When you find manifest rebellion | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| up and become a stronger and happier human being, you also contribute much more than you can | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| incompatible with the idea that a free human being can attain divinity. Once blind obedience is eliminated | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| God can not yet take hold of your being. In this phase all your faith may begin | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| -- you will develop into a strong self-responsible being, trusting in your own capacity to obtain what | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| and strengths instead of obtaining them from a being outside of yourself is no less divine. Quite | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| overall attitude, be closer to truth. Apart from being dangerous to draw such comparisons, the question is | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| weak and stupid, so that you need another being to act and decide instead of you. This | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| act and decide instead of you. This other being is often a human authority or church authority | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| that you want companionship out of fear of being alone, then the need for companionship springs, at | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| healthy as well as unhealthy. An integrated human being needs both companionship and solitude, and both for | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| hear your call. They cannot absorb what is being said to them. The attitude toward a person | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| as your range and power of deduction. Without being allowed to make mistakes in your thinking or | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| what is still a part of your emotional being, but through an organic process of emotional growth | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| and becoming a wholly integrated and healthy human being. You will soon discover the fallacy that there | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| farce if you deny this part of your being. If you do not have the courage to | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| awareness, how can healthy, strong emotions fill your being? If you cannot deal with the negative because | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| If destructive emotions govern you, instead of your being able to govern them without repression, it is | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| Find the area in which you resent not being taken care of, not being given all you | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| you resent not being taken care of, not being given all you want. Once you are aware | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| self-image, where you feel it prevents you from being what you could be without its interference. Once | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| son, I have this to say. The human being is not cut from one piece. Very many | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| hazy. The issue is no longer capable of being settled by quick judgment about what is good | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| if you cannot accept yourself as a human being, fallible and often confused, then this unavoidable confusion | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| yourself, which develop out of your nonacceptance of being merely human. Thus approval and compliments make you | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| therefore accept themselves as decent and likable without being perfect. They therefore know that criticism does not | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| mostly unconscious suspicion that you are incapable of being what you believe you really should be will | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| a relaxed way. You know that your whole being is not at stake, that actually only one | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| necessarily so. To a certain degree every human being needs occasional approval, let us say, in the | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| your imperfection, to your vulnerability as a human being. Your perfectionism does not allow for this. The | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| in Scripture, as doing the right thing and being good. But in more recent times, this word | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| become falsified depends on humanity's inner state of being, your emotions and mind. Merely living according to | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| dare to go deeply enough into your real being, you will never come to that part of | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| cannot really live up to in your emotional being, and about your nonacceptance of yourself as a | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| selfishness or greed or whatever else, but without being depressed about it. Simultaneously, there will be a | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to maturity is the ability to give up being special or grandiose and to accept yourself as | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| special or grandiose and to accept yourself as being average, living an average life. If you can | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| happiness out of the ordinary and out of being ordinary, then you have truly come a long | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| relief to actually be approached by a human being who has the strength to face and pronounce | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| normal, and legitimate needs of every healthy human being cause equally strong guilt feelings. This is due | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| discover that your defense mechanism has come into being not only because you fear the risks of | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| you must be, and the less capable of being alive and free in a real situation. Therefore | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| that you cannot face the possibility of not being liked, then you are incapable of objectively and | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| you are free enough to cope with not being liked, you will react spontaneously to that person | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| of truth the pressing need to be liked. Being in truth you will be in a position | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| harmony, thus violating another essential part of your being, resulting in repression, discontent, anxiety, a sense of | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| do you believe, in some part of your being, that its absence will be a disadvantage of | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| fulfillment without having to take a risk of being hurt or humiliated again. Since this cannot happen | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| best thing; I may have some importance by being successful in my work. Needless to say, such | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| efforts in certain directions. The real need for being loved was already repressed by the time the | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| professional work is one and the same as being loved. Images of this sort are quite frequent | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| the expense of? Because, if you concentrate on being successful, on impressing others, on receiving admiration -- | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| success without the unexpressed inner claim for love being met, it is not only a new frustration | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| unworthy of it, but because his defense against being hurt is to be arrogant, rejecting, superior, and | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| inferiority feeling disappear. It is the feeling of being unlovable that the soul resists facing. He fears | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| is: Why am I afraid of no longer being a child? The inner peace is the result | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| the drive for ambition, success, approval, impressing others, being glorious, special, and so on. He will do | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| is to find your real self, your true being, underneath layers upon layers which, at first glance | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| confusion, this trap. I discussed the topic of being caught between equally undesirable alternatives recently in a | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| repentance and self-hate. On one level of your being this is your dilemma. This, incidentally, is a | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| negatives will fall off. They have come into being through the split of a positive idea: self- | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| happen that a person actually feels pity while being convinced that what he or she feels is | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| instance, that at the core of every human being there is pity, indeed, self-pity. No, this is | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| symptom. Many attitudes and aspects in the human being are part of a chain-reaction. The core is | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| is significant, and it applies to every human being, regardless of intelligence, that wherever one is resistant | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| or the aim. This seems to me like being a machine. ANSWER: There is another confusion here | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| can take what has to be taken without being crushed. He or she will even benefit from | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| at this time of year, honoring the greatest Being who ever lived; the Being who had taught | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| honoring the greatest Being who ever lived; the Being who had taught and lived and died by | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| new year, though for us the fragmentation of being you call time does not exist -- I | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| human struggle as such. The very state of being human is a problem because you find yourself | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| form where you were in a state of being and in harmony, but without awareness. You have | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| You have not yet reached a state of being in harmony with awareness. This in-between state is | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| find the self, but for every single human being, regardless of their state of development, their character | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| Your fight is to find the state of being while in awareness. With awareness, you can reach | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| -- will you reach the core of your being. Slowly but surely you will begin to act | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| for the real you, the core of your being. You are confused because you take the superimpositions | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| The state of self-alienation -- that of not being one's real self -- is so predominant that | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| submissive, compliant and weak person. By saying that being your real self will make you master of | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| Non-fulfillment may be the result of your strength being inhibited. That strength is your real self, but | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| inhibition has nothing to do with your real being. Your real being is simply inactivated by your | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| to do with your real being. Your real being is simply inactivated by your distorted perception of | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| of your worthlessness, inadequacy and unlovability -- your being nothing. Of course, this is unconscious. In fact | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| your inability to relinquish, and your illusion of being crushed, annihilated and worth nothing if certain wishes | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| periphery and return to the center of your being. As long as you live on the periphery | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| that they utilize the infinite richness of their being. This could be expressed by saying: I am | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| glorious or special. I am a simple human being, like many others, but as such I am | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| in relationship to them. In the fluctuation of being either more or less than you really are | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| if your perception is so beclouded? Only by being yourself are you capable of happiness. This you | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| you are always together with a living, growing being, you do not see the growth taking place | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| much more. Yet they overemphasize parts of their being which are already developed, which do not need | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| this point, while a neglected area of their being remains static. There is no change because they | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| reality, growth, change, on all levels of your being. So do not say change is impossible. It | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| relate to and to understand others, rather than being understood by them, becomes clearer. In this respect | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| shifted into false ones have that power. Thus being aware of your real needs, long before you | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| within the reality of the core of your being. To reach this point you have to travel | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| humility and weakness, but in the strength of being able to endure it as long as is | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| may be feelings of helplessness, weakness, self-pity, of being subjected to the misery of life. If you | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| it is purely healthy. QUESTION: If a human being finds two conflicting currents within, if one recognizes | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| in your emotional, mental, spiritual and even physical being because you face yourself in utter candor. But | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| but nevertheless to everyone. There is no human being entirely free of this. I have never yet | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| this. I have never yet seen a human being in whom there is not somewhere a tightness | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| the same organs to communicate with. If one being has developed more than the other, due to | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| are truly anchored in the center of your being, you will not be lazy. You will not | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |