Connecting with the True Self does not mean that you are constantly in bliss or happiness. It simply means that you are free to experience life with all its joys and pains and that you are not hiding behind rigid defenses and facades.
According to the founder of humanistic psychology, A. Maslow, within us lies what he calls the ‘Jonah complex’ – a fear of our own greatness. “We fear our highest possibilities (as well as our lowest). We usually shy away from becoming what we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, in the most perfect conditions, […]
Howard Sasportas, in The Dynamics of the Unconscious: “The True Self is the deepest part of your individual nature — who you are beneath all your frills and trimmings. It is your own personality: who you are as a separate, individual being. Discovering your True Self is a process of freeing yourself from the false […]
On the path from “self-actualization to self-transcendence,” there is a very specific danger—in Maslow’s humanistic psychology, it is called “the higher detour.” Here is its description by Howard Sasportas in the book The Dynamics of the Unconscious: “Some people associate feelings like joy, bliss, or universal love with the Higher Self. But the perception of […]
“At origin aggressiveness is almost synonymous with activity.” — D.W. Winnicott This quote opens the chapter “The Astrology of Aggression” by Howard Sasportas in the book The Dynamics of the Unconscious. In it, the author reveals through astrological examples how the aggressive impulse is naturally embedded within us (the energy of the planet Mars) and […]
