Jaeggy's shipwrecked alter egos have little use for self-understanding, wholesome productivity, and virtuous happiness.
The result is a compelling portrait of a man once serenely confident, searching decades later for self-understanding.
Does any part of her see Self Made, as well as her earlier work, as a strategy for self-understanding?
It's not really so ridiculous to want to use the occasion of a separation as an opportunity for self-understanding and growth, is it?
There's perhaps another way of reading Outliers and that's as a quest for self-understanding, since the author himself is obviously an outlier.
"I think summer books used to be more for self-understanding and individual growth, and lately they've shifted more into global understanding".
And how can a national museum not even attempt a major narrative history of this country that might set the stage for self-understanding?
Nervo's introspective poetry, characterized by deep religious feeling and simple forms, reflects his struggle for self-understanding and inner peace in an uncertain world.
"There must be some desire for self-understanding," said Langman, who has spent decades studying the psychology of school shooters, has written several books and maintains an online research archive on school shooters.
The Kabbalah Centre markets Jewish mysticism to everyone, Gentile and Jew, adults and children, as a system of tools for self-understanding, to be acquired through its courses, books, tapes and "gear" like T-shirts and key rings.
