The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally... higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But the worst one of all to leave uncurbed, Unsocialized, is ingenuity:... Which for no sordid self-aggrandizement, For nothing but its own blind satisfaction ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use the psychoanalytic situat...ion to transform insignificant childhood hurts into private shrines at which they worship unceasingly the enormity of the offenses committed against them. This solution is immensely flattering to the patients--as are all forms of unmerited self-aggrandizement; it is immensely profitable for the analysts--as are all forms pandering to people's vanity; and it is often immensely unpleasant for nearly everyone else in the patient's life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »