The Psychology of Self-Esteem

and necessitate the fullest exercise of his powers and thus allow him to achieve and experience the growing pride of self-esteem ...

There are at least four factors that can motivate (not necessitate) a person's default on the responsibility of independence and ...

human being's conceptual maturation. The problem is far, far commoner in this realm and far less recognized. Without ever confro ...

fact is experienced by many men as fearsome and discomfiting: it demands a stronger commitment to the efficacy of their own mind ...

For some of the persons who dread intellectual self-reliance, there is still another motive involved. The process of rational th ...

He knows, consciously or subconsciously, that he does not know what to do and that knowledge is required to make decisions in th ...

Social Metaphysical Fear It must be emphasized that the social metaphysician's dependence on other men is not, fundamentally, ma ...

In order to belong with others, the social metaphysician is willing to belong to them. Since, however, he is seeking a manner of ...

he were to acknowledge his atheism, his career would be ruined (evading the fact that many professors are known atheists and the ...

He does not tell himself that he is afraid of being ridiculed as an "outsider," or that he abjectly hungers for the esteem of me ...

only to serve them, he must restrain them by assuring them that theirs is the right superseding all other rights. This, he tells ...

that is tied to and dependent on the responses of the "significant others"; (e) a tragic or malevolent sense of life, a belief t ...

me"—such is the formula of his existence, such is the "genetic code" controlling his soul's development. The Conventional social ...

man who—usually when it is too late—will sometimes rebel in hysterical indignation, when the atrocities have come too close and ...

hatred. The hatred is aimed at those who invoke his fear. Resentment and hostility are his dominant emotional traits. (These emo ...

cony of his palace, the blood of millions dripping from his fingers, beaming down at a ragged mob gathered there to honor him—th ...

While his desire is to control the consciousnesses of others, he does not necessarily resort to physical force, even when opport ...

dreadful struggle to preserve this fraud in their own eyes). They know that the inferiority feelings of their fellow social meta ...

home to join the anarchist movement, because his father suggested to him that perhaps it is time to start earning a living, now ...

fringes of society. But in a culture such as ours, the pressure resulting from the intellectual vacuum can fling them up from th ...