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In individualistic cultures, people are considered, "good," if they are strong, self-reliant, assertive, and independent. This contrasts with collectivist cultures where personal characteristics, like being self-sacrificing, dependable, generous, and helpful to others, are of greater importance.
Hyponym for Self-analysis: self-examination, self-contemplation, introspection
self-analysis, noun:
1. generally, the investigation or exploration of the self for the purpose of better understanding personal thoughts, emotions, and behavior. Self-analysis occurs consciously and nonconsciously in many contexts of daily life, and with assistance from the therapist, it is a crucial process within most forms of psychotherapy.
2. an attempt to apply the principles of psychoanalysis to a study of one’s own drives, feelings, and behavior. Early in his career, Sigmund Freud proposed self-analysis as part of the preparation of an analyst, and much of his early psychoanalytic theory was based on his own self-analysis as described in The Interpretation of Dreams (1900). He later dropped the idea in favor of a training analysis. Nonetheless, most psychoanalysts conduct an ongoing self-analysis to monitor for countertransference and blind spots as they work with patients. —self-analytic adj.
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From Ancient Greek Histories, "The unexamined life is not worth living," is a famous dictum apparently uttered by Socrates at his trial and/or as his final words spoken before drinking hemlock towards self-imposed execution for being found guilty of impiety and corrupting youth, for which he was subsequently sentenced to death, as described in Plato's Apology (38a5–6).
From Ancient Greek Histories, "The unexamined life is not worth living," is a famous dictum apparently uttered by Socrates at his trial and/or as his final words spoken before drinking hemlock towards self-imposed execution for being found guilty of impiety and corrupting youth, for which he was subsequently sentenced to death, as described in Plato's Apology (38a5–6).
[38a] and if again I say that to talk every day about virtue and the other things about which you hear me talking and examining myself and others is the greatest good to man, and that the unexamined life is not worth living, you will believe me still less. This is as I say, gentlemen, but it is not easy to convince you. Besides, I am not accustomed to think that I deserve anything bad. If I had money, I would have proposed a fine,
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 1 translated by Harold North Fowler; Introduction by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1966.
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