Quotes About Self-estrangement

As Wilhelm Reich demonstrated in his groundbreaking work on the formation of character, the personality is built on these points of self-estrangement; the paradox is that what we take to be so real, our selves, is constructed out of a reaction against just what we do not wish to acknowledge.

I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.

was] a stranger to himself.

Denying that art is mere expression, the later myth rather relates art to the mind's need or capacity for self-estrangement.

I am Jack's wasted life.

I am not my own friend. Time cuts me in two.