self torment, n.All

Self-torment (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the sin that punishes itself more than any other.

Self-torment (n.) is, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in obsessional neurosis, the desire to torture put not into the passive but into the reflexive, middle voice.

Self-torment (n.) that ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠thinks it does God a service is a sin of not willing to love oneself rightly.

Self-torment (n.) usually ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠has a cruel man on one side and a tortured one on the other; the sinful woman was both, herself the inventor of the cruelty of confessing at a banquet.

Self-torment (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the worry today does not have, having enough of its own: the worry of the next day, which one causes oneself.

Self-torment (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠what an ego gets when it is caught between a murderous id and a punishing conscience — and next it torments whoever is within reach.

Self-torment (n.) makes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠man his own huntsman, his own sacrificer, his own sacrificial knife — Zarathustra self-hunted, his own quarry, hanged in the noose of his own wisdom.

Self-torment (n.) has ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a cure that fits in a short book, like the Spanish volume "The Best Cure for Heretics," which opened to reveal a scourge: let every day have enough in its own worries.