Tag: Divided Self
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Generational Rupture 5: The Myth of the Self-Made Generation — Autonomy, Contingency, and the Fear of Roots
In the fragmented world of images and isolation, another myth has quietly taken hold of the modern imagination—the myth of the self-made self. Inherited not from the past but from the fever of modernity, it whispers to each generation that it must begin again. That the truth lies not behind, but only ahead. That one’s…
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Psychology and the Disappearing Self – 3: Inner Child and Fragmented Selves — Healing Without Wholeness
The modern self is a fractured self. In the therapeutic worldview, we are not one — we are many.We carry an “inner child,” a wounded protector, a critical parent, dissociated parts, shadow selves. We speak of being triggered, “not feeling like ourselves,” or “working with the parts that got hurt.”And so healing becomes the art…
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It Is What It Is 