Sentence examples for inner image from inspiring English sources

Such an approach of persistent parental negativity can promote an inner image of profound deflation and devaluation in the growing child, and even perhaps the development of a defensive unrealistic grandiosity (the unrealistically inflated self-esteem that Mr. Brooks refers to).

Of course, it turns out that, despite these caveats, the Cartesian inner image is in fact a picture that resembles what it represents, being (during vision) a point-by-point projection of the retinal image upon the pineal surface.

We know that not everyone may not see a man differently because he's in a suit, but we know that wearing a suits greatly helps men in increasing their confidence, strengthening their inner image, and getting their lives back on track.

"The years, of which I have spoken to you, when I pursued the inner images, were the most important time in my life," Jung later said.

Later, I was able to demonstrate experimentally that prayer practice did lead to more vivid inner images and more hallucination-like events.

In other words, whereas perception focusses on external things, the soul reflects on their inner images.

Visual impairment affects the perception of the target group and the way how they create their visions and inner images.

Here it is suggested that inner images have a role in controlling the appetites, the "lower" (as Plato saw it) aspect of the soul.

Descartes insists that it is of no consequence whether the inner images of his theory (formed on the surface of the pineal gland, the Cartesian visual buffer) actually resemble the things they represent.

(This idea is still found in modern, scientific theories of desire (McMahon 1973; Kavanagh et al., 2005; Andrade et al., 2009).) Aristotle also apparently held that linguistic meaning derives from imagery, spoken words being but the symbols of the inner images (De Interpretatione 16a 5–9; De Anima 420b 29–32; see Modrak, 2001).

Traumatized people have traumatized brains which Phillips described on the Oprah show when she alluded to having "flashbacks," unwanted, repeating inner images, which she attempted to compartmentalize and block out.