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#567 - Dr Jonathan Shedler - 14 Psychoanalytical Concepts To Understand Yourself
Modern Wisdom
The False Self
Under ideal circumstances with sort of empathic loving parents who are not using a child to compensate for some felt deficiency of their own. The parent is in the business of helping the child to grow and discover who they are. And when the start is very early on, it's like this way a child really never has an opportunity to discover their own thoughts or feelings. They end up having to mold themselves into being something that serves a parent's needs. And we call that a false self as opposed to a true self. That can last a lifetime. You see it in... you see it in children all over the world.
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