He was maybe looking for a bit of self-sympathy".
It is not a question of self-sympathy.
Dee was at work on the book for many years — the novelist saw the significance and hollowness of the financial boom long before the regulators and cable commentators did — and clearly much of his work went into perfecting an "unreliable" third-person narrative voice: a tone of self-evidence and undefensive self-sympathy in the book's depiction of how our world looks to people like the Moreys.
In any case, for Bergson, intuition is entering into ourselves – he says we seize ourselves from within – but this self-sympathy develops heterogeneously into others.
Before, we leave this discussion, it is important to realize that intuition, understood as my self-sympathy, like the one color orange, is what Bergson calls a "component part" (The Creative Mind, pp. 170 72).
Though it takes a certain cocktail of self-awareness and a morose funny-man mentality, MacDonald found catharsis in naming his experiences and giving himself the gift of self-sympathy and understanding.
Though it takes a certain cocktail of self-awareness and a morose funny-man mentality, McDonald found catharsis in naming his experiences and giving himself the gift of self-sympathy and understanding.
Kant confirms this by comparing motivation by duty with other sorts of motives, in particular, with motives of self-interest, self-preservation, sympathy and happiness.
This "annihilation" is not quasi-mystical obliteration; rather, it is a reorientation toward, or discovery of, a higher self of sympathy, theopathy, and the moral sense.
And Godard's camera follows him, impulsively, alertly, tenderly, as if seeking to film with a gaze akin to Roxy's — not blank or uncomprehending but endowed with a boundless, self-subordinating sympathy.
