The Psychology of Self-Esteem

The Ambivalent type seldom dares to question the fundamental values of his social environment, but he is often indifferent to th ...

The forms that social metaphysics can take are virtually unlimited. But if one grasps the basic principles involved, one will be ...

Chapter Eleven— 11. Self-Esteem and Romantic Love The Principle of Psychological Visibility The two sources of greatest potentia ...

ceal ignorance. Psychologists, to date, have contributed nothing to our understanding of this subject. Man's desire for human co ...

in the most impoverished conditions, plant flowers in boxes on their window sills—for the pleasure of watching something grow. W ...

Suppose I were to view Muttnik as an automaton without consciousness or awareness, and to view her actions and responses as enti ...

appropriate, i.e., consonant with my view of myself and of what I was conveying to her. Had she responded with fear and an attit ...

When man stands before a mirror, he is able to perceive his own face as an object in reality, and he finds pleasure in doing so, ...

total personality—depending on the nature of the person with whom he is dealing and on the nature of their interaction. Sometime ...

desires and needs the experience of self-awareness that results from perceiving his self as an objective existent— and he is abl ...

Sometimes, in the case of interaction between two neurotics, a kind of pseudo-visibility can be mutually projected—in a situatio ...

truth about his own character and actions, conceptually; he wants to experience it, perceptually, through and by means of its co ...

When a man of self-esteem meets a person for the first time, his primary concern is not, "What does he think of me?"—but rather, ...

For example, if a man is characteristically honest in his dealings with people, this trait pertains to his psychology as a human ...

meaningless physical indulgence); a positive and self-valuing response to one's own body; a strong, positive response to the bod ...

This applies to persons with a neurotic sex psychology as much as to persons whose sex psychology is normal. For instance, the r ...

Love is an emotional response that involves two basic, related aspects: one regards the loved object as possessing or embodying ...

unique among pleasures in its integration of body and mind: it integrates perceptions, emotions, values, and thought—it offers a ...

In light of the above, it is not difficult to understand why, throughout the centuries, the mystic-religionist enemies of man, o ...

feels that it is one's person, not merely one's body, that is the cause of the pleasure felt by one's partner. One feels, in eff ...