Self-Understanding — 10-Volume Series
Look into the mirror. We do not know ourselves as well as we think. Ten chapters of self-observation.
01
Look into the Mirror — What Jung, Freud, and Adler Left Us
Freud's unconscious, Jung's shadow, Adler's teleology — the starting point that we are not master in our own house.
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02
The Discrepancy Between Self-Recognition and Other-Recognition
Others do not see you the way you think you see yourself. Knowing the discrepancy is how the self comes into view.
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03
Quietly Accept the Self That Cannot
Facing "the self that cannot" is different from blaming the self. Acknowledgment is the gateway to change.
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04
Anger Is the Mirror of the Heart
Anger is not an outburst. What were you trying to protect, and whom did you fail to protect — the mirror of your own priorities.
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05
The Meaning of Fixating on Good and Bad
What is the fixation on "correctness" trying to preserve? The line of good and bad binds the self and pushes others away.
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06
Jung's Type Theory — Introversion, Extraversion, Mapping Your Habits
From Hippocrates' four humors to MBTI. Map your habits via introversion/extraversion and four functions.
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07
The True Face of Irritation — A Story of Repressed Desires
Freud's iceberg, Zhu Xi's self-discipline, Stoics on anger — irritation is a signal, a map.
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08
What Am I? — Zhuangzi's Butterfly Dream and Cartesian Doubt
Zhuangzi's butterfly dream, Descartes, Hume, Buddhist anātman — the riddle of self across 2300 years.
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09
Jealousy and Envy — Ressentiment and "Worry Not That Others Know You"
Nietzsche, Adler, Confucius, Girard — four questions to turn envy into information.
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10
Polishing the Mirror — Nine Paths of Self-Understanding, One Practice
Wang Yangming, Zen, Jung's individuation, Aristotle's phronesis — synthesizing 9 chapters into daily observation habits.
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