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Self-reflection (n.) always ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠runs into the frontier of the unconscious — which holds precisely what you most need to know.

Self-reflection (n.) is, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in dreams, reflection not on the ego but on the self — the strange self, foreign to the ego, that was ours from the start, the trunk the ego grew from.

Self-reflection (n.) yields ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not only truths but dignity: by it a man deems himself worthy of serious attention and signs a declaration of his own human worth.

Self-reflection (n.) shows ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠that the good exceeds the bad by very little, if at all — permanent moral goodness is imaginable only to the unconscious, and permanent self-deception is the rule.

Self-reflection (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠deemed almost morbid — we suspect the psyche of harbouring something unwholesome, so any concern with it smells of the sick-room.