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For Freud, one of the most fascinating and impassable enigmas was people's self-destructiveness, their masochism and their sadism.
That's an excellent description of trying to live using survival strategies to compensate for negative self-esteem beliefs.
To compensate for weaknesses of self-assessment, educational programmes should promote self-directed assessment seeking and critical reflection.
Ultimately, online manifestations of narcissism may be little more than a self-presentational strategy to compensate for a low and fragile self-esteem.
He had long used humor, he later said, to compensate for a lack of self-assurance and an impoverished childhood.
To compensate for the limitations of self-reporting, urine screening analyses were performed at baseline.
This helped to compensate for his lack of self confidence as a "useless academic".
There is humility to compensate for the passages of shifty self-exculpation.
Those with borderline personality disorder tend toward self-destructiveness, manipulativeness and flash-flood anger.
A year later comes another line, somewhat ominous: "I marry Philip with full consciousness + fear of my will toward self-destructiveness".
Billy Crudup stars in this comic drama, celebrating youthful irresponsibility and the joys of self-destructiveness. Based on Denis Johnson's fiction.
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