Quotes About Social self

For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable.

The more we identify with our psychologically and socially constructed self, the more deeply we hide from God, ourselves and others.

You hide your instinctive self and instead create a social self with lies. That's how people are able to get along with each other. What's scary is when you strip all the lies away to get at the essential you. What if it's pure evil? You don't want to face that. So lies aren't all bad - we need them to live.

The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its own.

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.