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==Related Terms==
==Related LP Terms==


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Latest revision as of 17:48, 19 December 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 LP Terms

Unwanted Self > Alignment, Awareness Redirection Mechanisms, Awareness Reduction Mechanisms, Connection Pathology, Emotional Suppression Mechanisms

Non-LP Related Terms

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Notes

Repression and other Awareness Reduction Mechanisms are deployed in order to suppress awareness of the unwanted self.

Footnotes

  1. 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).