"False" and "true self"

No matter what our childhood was like, an emphasis on the concrete, the simple, in how we view life should be able to tempt the psyche so that certain inconveniences arise that resemble an unfortunately established "true and false self-structure" in childhood. I think this may be relevant when we discuss a system of thought like the new age and the attitude to existence that this can stimulate.

"Faustic Negotiation" (an expression from Grotstein, referenced in Cullberg, 2000)