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  2. True self and false self - Wikipedia

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    Alexander Lowen identified narcissists as having a true and a false, or superficial, self. The false self rests on the surface, as the self presented to the world. It stands in contrast to the true self, which resides behind the facade or image. This true self is the feeling self, but for the narcissist the feeling self must be hidden and denied.

  3. Honne and tatemae - Wikipedia

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    In Japan, honne and tatemae are Japanese terms relating to a person's feelings and outward behaviors. [1] Honne refers to a person's true feelings and desires (本音, hon'ne, "true sound"), and tatemae refers contrastingly to the behavior and opinions one displays in public (建前, tatemae, "built in front", "façade").

  4. Façade - Wikipedia

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    A façade or facade (/ f ə ˈ s ɑː d / ⓘ; [1]) is generally the front part or exterior of a building. It is a loanword from the French façade (pronounced), which means "frontage" or "face". In architecture, the façade of a building is often the most important aspect from a design standpoint, as it sets the tone for the rest of the building.

  5. Appearance and Reality - Wikipedia

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    Appearance and Reality (1893; second edition 1897) [1] is a book by the English philosopher Francis Herbert Bradley, in which the author, influenced by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, argues that things like qualities and relations, space and time, matter and motion, selves and bodies, and activity and change, are all contradictory and unreal appearances.

  6. Idealism - Wikipedia

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    Idealism in philosophy, also known as philosophical idealism or metaphysical idealism, is the set of metaphysical perspectives asserting that, most fundamentally, reality is equivalent to mind, spirit, or consciousness; that reality is entirely a mental construct; or that ideas are the highest type of reality or have the greatest claim to being considered "real".

  7. Potemkin village - Wikipedia

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    Although "Potemkin village" has come to mean, especially in a political context, any hollow or false construct, a facade, physical or figurative, meant to hide an undesirable or potentially damaging situation, [8] it is possible that the phrase cannot be applied accurately to its own original historical inspiration.

  8. The Real - Wikipedia

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    The Real, as analogized as an aporia in experience or an encompassing black hole of reality, relates to the Jungian archetype of the Death Mother, the shadow of the Mother archetype, articulated in Neumann's The Great Mother. [191] [10] [11] The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth.

  9. Social reality - Wikipedia

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    Within the social world, Schütz distinguished between social reality that could be experienced directly (umwelt) and a social reality beyond the immediate horizon, which could yet be experienced if sought out. [5] In his wake, ethnomethodology explored further the unarticulated structure of our everyday competence and ability with social ...