skin-encapsulated ego

is itself one of the obsolete social institutions from which the distressed individual needs relief.

Recast in definition form from: “… social institutions which are self-contradictory, obsolete, or needlessly restricting …”

is how even people who know better go on feeling themselves: isolated selves inside bags of skin.

Recast in definition form from: “… aware of themselves as isolated "egos" inside bags of skin. …”

skin encapsulated ego, n.Definitions