![]() He just avoids it, often without even being aware that he is. He is not aware of wanting to avoid an activity because it might hurt his pride. This too is a process that goes on automatically. The neurotic may build an elaborate system of avoidances in the hope of circumventing future hurts. “ pride is both so vulnerable and so precious that it also must be protected in the future. Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization The emphasis shifts from being to appearing.” Thereby, to a greater or lesser extent, he loses in the process his interest in truth, and the sense for what is true or not true - a loss that, among others, accounts for his difficulty in distinguishing between genuine feelings, beliefs, strivings, and their artificial equivalents (unconscious pretenses) in himself and in others. ![]() Because, finally, the creation of the idealized self is possible only at the expense of truth about himself, its actualization requires further distortions of truth, imagination being a willing servant to this end. Hence he loses the sense of what evolution or growth means, even though he may talk about it. He does not want to climb a mountain he wants to be on the peak. Because the main goal is the attainment of glory, he becomes uninterested in the process of learning, of doing, or of gaining step by step - indeed, tends to scorn it. “The neurotic, as long as he must adhere to his illusions about himself, cannot recognize limitations, the search for glory goes into the unlimited. ![]()
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