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David Brooks • 71 highlights
amazon.comHow can you feel confident in making a choice for yourself, when self is in question?
Sylvia Plath’s fig tree metaphor poignantly depicts the immobility that strikes when faced with our own sense of agency.
When our sense of self is not mirrored and attuned to as we develop, our personalities and way of relating to the world can feel fragmented and disorganized.
We see ourselves as others see us, and when we feel invisible, well, we have a tendency to fall to pieces.
He can only discover what he feels by seeing it reflected back. If the infant is seen in a way that makes him feel he exists, in a way that confirms him, he is free to go on looking.
“since one must exercise control over one's life to be autonomous, autonomy is something that a person accomplishes, not something that happens to a person.”