tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15056781.post680077569976963390..comments2023-07-19T01:47:37.907-07:00Comments on philosophy autobiography: Philosophical BeingJeff Meyerhoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00495041879727609927noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15056781.post-17379549366734813442008-09-06T10:36:00.000-07:002008-09-06T10:36:00.000-07:00Yes, it can be the way you say, but it varies from...Yes, it can be the way you say, but it varies from case to case. Some may use theorizing as a defense or escape, but others may be following out a healthy desire and producing useful results. And those using it as a defense could also, despite that, do useful things with their psychological research.<BR/><BR/>A typical problem with "devising means of self-change" is that the means usually were successful for the deviser and may or may not be right for others. That's okay except that people have a tendency to think that there means of self-change is the right way and is based on human nature, so that other means are seen as going against our natures.<BR/><BR/>But you're right the creation of a false self - and especially one marketed as the true self - is very common and typically creates those bad, hidden side effects.<BR/><BR/>JeffJeff Meyerhoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00495041879727609927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15056781.post-56471882038551933552008-08-22T18:26:00.000-07:002008-08-22T18:26:00.000-07:00Thanks for the posting. Perhaps the tendency to th...Thanks for the posting. Perhaps the tendency to theorize (psychologically) is in many cases a symptom of being unable to relate simply to our own and others actuality. <BR/>Maybe devising means of self-change is an activity of self separation based on impatience and acquisitiveness taking us away from what needs to be integrated through acceptance. <BR/>The fruit of this ancient escapism is the self we try to present to the world and highly creative people like Nietzsche do this with flourish. The more energy put into this presentation the greater the conflict, tension and contradiction.thomas martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16346014502521227573noreply@blogger.com