Just this review injected a strong acid into my mind and it's burning through everything. I'm questioning my behaviors and thought patterns and then questioning the questioning. I realized how a lot of my thoughts are geared towards looking good in front of an imaginary audience. That made me feel satisfied, that I was the type of person willing to notice this and admit it to myself. But wait... isn't that itself a defense mechanism?
I think the point of the unfalsifiable claims like: "there's always a repressed desire" and "everyone is playing status games in their head" isn't that they're necessarily true; it's to make the acid more potent.
Regarding the voice of the book: you're supposed to apply the type of analysis advocated in the book to the book itself. The author is abusive towards me, and yet I'm enjoying it and thinking more highly of him. What does that say about me?
Just this review injected a strong acid into my mind and it's burning through everything. I'm questioning my behaviors and thought patterns and then questioning the questioning. I realized how a lot of my thoughts are geared towards looking good in front of an imaginary audience. That made me feel satisfied, that I was the type of person willing to notice this and admit it to myself. But wait... isn't that itself a defense mechanism?
I think the point of the unfalsifiable claims like: "there's always a repressed desire" and "everyone is playing status games in their head" isn't that they're necessarily true; it's to make the acid more potent.
Regarding the voice of the book: you're supposed to apply the type of analysis advocated in the book to the book itself. The author is abusive towards me, and yet I'm enjoying it and thinking more highly of him. What does that say about me?
I'm definitely going to read this book.