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WTF? I thought he was a neurotic nihilist but what is this?

"We might say that there were roughly four levels of power
and meaning that an individual could “choose” to live by:
1. The first, most intimate, basic level, is what we could
call the Personal one. It is the level of what one is oneself, his
“true” self, his special gift or talent, what he feels himself to
be deep down inside, the person he talks to when he is alone,
the secret hero of his inner scenario.
2. The second or next highest level we could call the Social.
It represents the most immediate extension of oneself to a
select few intimate others: one’s spouse, his friends, his
relatives, perhaps even his pets.
3. The third and next higher level we could call the
Secular. It consists of symbols of allegiance at a greater
personal distance and often higher in power and
compellingness: the corporation, the party, the nation,
science, history, humanity.
4. The fourth and highest level of power and meaning we
would call the Sacred: it is the invisible and unknown level of
power, the insides of nature, the source of creation, God.
These levels, of course, are not discrete for most people:
most of us live in several of them, and the importance we
assign to each level gives the general orientation and
dimensions of our self-world. I said that the individual could “choose” the levels he would live by, and it is obvious why I
put the word in quotation marks: usually the person doesn’t
ask himself this basic question: this is decided for him by the
accidents of his birth and training and by the energies of his
heredity, his constitution. Taken together they propel him
into a character structure that operates comfortably on certain
levels of power and meaning.

>>18207782

The only psychology book you will ever need.

>>18010047
Read pic related and recognize they are all as mortally terrified as you. So you will finally throw your slave instinct out of the window with enough contemplation of the knowledge.

this book made me feel bad

>>17321763
Fuck you kierk was a the first psychoanalyst.

fucking brutal

ignore every single retard itt
pic related is the only psychological book you need

brutal

Brutal

>>15749747
you have to take the finalpill
trust me anon just read pic related