Poseur
One of the ways in which the ego attempts to escape the unsatisfactoriness of personal selfhood is to enlarge and strengthen its sense of self by identifying with a group
Eckhart Tolle • A New Earth: The life-changing follow up to The Power of Now. ‘My No.1 guru will always be Eckhart Tolle’ Chris Evans
This Tim Urbanism-Andrew Hubermanism is not the only nonpolitical ideology circulating. There’s a closely related variant that encourages you to get into massive debt buying crypto and bad art. There was one that prescribed moral self-improvement via polyamory, weight gain, and pop music; somehow, this managed to pass itself off as ‘leftism’ for th... See more
whereas Hegel understood his philosophical approach as primarily descriptive, Kierkegaard and Marx borrowed an essentially Hegelian conception of selfhood but used it prescriptively. However, as each developed his parallel criticism of Hegel’s idealism, freeing his conception of selfhood from its conservative formulation, what had once been imagine
... See moreJamie Aroosi • The Dialectical Self: Kierkegaard, Marx, and the Making of the Modern Subject
Human beings, as Freud sees it, are radically at odds with who they take themselves to be. And in Lacan’s more radical reading of Freud, Freud is saying that ‘whatever we take ourselves to be we are not’.
Adam Phillips • On Giving Up
reflecting the Freudian model of existence that, according to Nelson, “turns our lives into detective stories; our innermost selves, into culprits.”
Alice Bolin • Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession
Post ego is the idea that you are not the self that is thinking, but it is the thoughts that are thinking you.