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Revision as of 15:43, 26 October 2022
The Unwanted Self represents the personality traits, characteristics, and actions that an individual Bodily Ego perceives as undesirable.[1] Traits may be perceived as undesirable by the individual bodily ego either because they are disjunctive and cause the invocation of painful Steering Emotions, or because an individual who has these traits, e.g., homosexuality, has experienced censure and assault as a consequence of their expression. In either case,
Related Terms
Alignment > Dharma, Mahabbah, Plateau Experience, Shefa, Temptation, Unwanted Self
Notes
Repression and other Awareness Reduction Mechanisms are deployed in order to suppress awareness of the unwanted self.
Footnotes
- ↑ Newman, Leonard S., Kimberley J. Duff, and Roy F. Baumeister. “A New Look at Defensive Projection: Thought Suppression, Accessibility, and Biased Person Perception.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, no. n5 (1997).
