Saturday, 28 September 2024

"Man feels inferior precisely when he lacks ‘true inner values in the personality,’ when he is merely a reflex of something next to him and has no steadying inner gyroscope, no centering in himself. And in order to get such centering man has to look beyond the ‘thou,’ beyond the consolations of others and of the things of this world. Man is a ‘theological being,’ concludes Rank, and not a biological one.''

Becker

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