Psychoanalysis should reignite people's interest in the world outside of themselves and help them become more self-forgetful.
The movie took five exciting, exhausting, self-forgetful months to complete.
There is a self-forgetful surfeit of pleasures, more than the eye and mind can readily handle.
He's the perfect leading man — captivating, graceful, surpassingly handsome, an image of perfection — and the audience gazes upon him "rapt in self-forgetful absorption".
Flirting with self-forgetful realism in the nineties, Prince took elegiac photographs of woebegone back-road sights, such as a basketball hoop in an overgrown meadow.
The girl, momentarily self-forgetful, is absorbed in her process, "hunkered over her drawing pad, / humming, for an hour". She edits the four deer down to a classical three and draws the beans in idealized rows.
On writing: "The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful … to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself".
He was thus, however exacting his standards, a most positive figure as a mentor, giving of himself in discussion in a manner that could be opinionated but was also self-forgetful.
The recompense for pain is truly freeing self-forgetful humility.
C consists of social acceptance (C1), empathy (C2), helpfulness (C3), compassion (C4), pure-hearted conscience (C5), and ST includes self-forgetful (ST1), transpersonal identification (ST2), and spiritual acceptance (ST3).
That's self-service, not self-sacrifice.
