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| If healthy need fulfillment is hindered through your pseudosolutions, unrealistic fears and erroneous images, which paralyze your | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| yourself, your idealized self-image and your resort to pseudosolutions. These shortcomings create compulsive drives. The needs, on | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| influences that have created the original pain. The pseudosolutions are a way of battling the world, the | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| problems and conflicts, the images, the defense mechanisms, pseudosolutions and wrong conclusions you have found so far | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| eliminate false concepts and illusion, and the unworkable pseudosolutions and behavior patterns they generate. Ever since we | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| Pseudo-solutions............68 | |
| on untruth, can only lead you to unsatisfactory pseudo-solutions. Only if you free yourself of the idea | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| progress. There are many more facets, possibilities, individual pseudo-solutions combining all sorts of mutually exclusive trends. All | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| stray into the wrong solution. One of these pseudo-solutions is love. The feeling is, If only I | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| always thwarted by the opposite trends of other pseudo-solutions which are also always present in the soul | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| as predominant. In the same way, those whose pseudo-solutions are different, will find aspects of this submissiveness | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| they do in the other attitudes linked to pseudo-solutions. Pride, hypocrisy, and pretense are present in all | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| that the more you are involved in your pseudo-solutions, the less of your real self can manifest | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| a person predominantly uses only one of these pseudo-solutions, one or both of the other tendencies still | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| anxiety when called upon to give up the pseudo-solutions. The function of the instinct of self-preservation is | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| In a recent lecture I mentioned three main pseudo-solutions: (1) the quest for love, (2) the quest | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| to be found even in the case of pseudo-solutions. I should now like to be a little | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| possible as the distortion increases. The two primary pseudo-solutions, present to some extent in every individual, have | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| one invariably causes distortion of the other, both pseudo-solutions will be found in every individual. For some | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| compromise that seeks to combine the mutually exclusive pseudo-solutions. Many more variations are possible and have to | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| have to uncover layer by layer how these pseudo-solutions cannot possibly bring the desired results, why they | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| ideas govern their origin and their aim. Such pseudo-solutions superimpose still other ones, along with contradictory underlying | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| will truly unfold layer after layer of these pseudo-solutions with all their various emotional reactions. You will | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| disturbs them and their own inner conflicts and pseudo-solutions. They do not realize that any pseudo-solution produces | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| that happen? ANSWER: It happens because these are pseudo-solutions and therefore they do not work. They may | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| certain obstacles, not permitting one of these attempted pseudo-solutions to work, then the others may in turn | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| and is bound to react by resorting to pseudo-solutions. This should absolve you from destructive guilt feelings | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| maintaining the pretenses that are always linked to pseudo-solutions. And this, in turn, will help you to | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| good indication of the idealized self-image and its pseudo-solutions. Fantasy stems from the predominant aims and needs | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| These aims and values are resorted to as pseudo-solutions. When such an aim is actually realized, it | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| idealized self-image, creating the fundamental problem with its pseudo-solutions. The pseudo-solutions are adopted in order to cope | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| creating the fundamental problem with its pseudo-solutions. The pseudo-solutions are adopted in order to cope with the | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you are bound to grow out of these pseudo-solutions and therefore you will free yourself of the | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wrong conclusions and destructive defense mechanisms. Without the pseudo-solutions and defenses, a part of you believes itself | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| to deal with the various wrong conclusions and pseudo-solutions which constitute the main image. The second concern | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| your needs simply by not acknowledging them. Your pseudo-solutions are supposed to bring you the fulfillment without | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| traits of the idealized self-image, and the various pseudo-solutions. Only by courageously going through this process will | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| the idealized self-image is, and whatever the various pseudo-solutions are. Even if the pseudo-solution is submissiveness, which | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| superiority will be found as in the other pseudo-solutions. It is clothed in a seemingly more acceptable | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| you discover your own unreality -- wrong conclusions, pseudo-solutions, evasions -- will you reach the core of | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| true even more when you use your various pseudo-solutions. If you now reread the lectures dealing with | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| whose nature is reality and reason. Moreover, the pseudo-solutions and the idealized self are selfish and loveless | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| real self, whose intrinsic nature is love. The pseudo-solutions and the idealized self- image are pretenses. The | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| subtle pretense in every single person. Everyone has pseudo-solutions and an idealized self-image. Both are based on | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| person who is still embroiled in immaturity and pseudo-solutions. Once you are real, your own value will | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| many factors, such as your personality structure, your pseudo-solutions, your life problems, and so on. The forcing | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| than the outright domineering and aggressive person. All pseudo-solutions bring untold pain to the self, as well | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| cannot help but bring consequences, and thus the pseudo-solutions, intended to eliminate the original pain, only bring | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| original pain, only bring you more pain. All pseudo-solutions, in addition to various other aspects, are incorporated | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| that dealt with your wrong conclusions, misconceptions, images, pseudo-solutions. You are, to some extent at least, aware | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| by repression and escaping from them, not by pseudo-solutions and defenses, but by squarely facing all that | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| Its messages become harder to decipher because these pseudo-solutions only abet self-alienation. It is now necessary that | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| the original evil, as are, for example, the pseudo-solutions. The false remedy, in this case, is an | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| of will. Only finding and changing your misconceptions, pseudo-solutions, and distortions can bring this about. To facilitate | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| understand and experience for evermore the truth that pseudo-solutions are strenuous and energy- consuming, while experiencing the | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| include the cover-up for the unresolved problems, the pseudo-solutions, or the false defenses. They are not part | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| way that leads toward spiritual maturity. All images, pseudo-solutions, misconceptions and inner conflicts arise from the infant's | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| fallen to the young person's outer or inner pseudo-solutions, ways of life which combine conflicting elements in | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| of Egypt? I can see the theory of pseudo-solutions where Greece and other cultures are concerned, but | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| to your personal images, main problems, unresolved conflicts, pseudo-solutions and idealized self-image. Look further into your personal | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| you started to progress on this path, your pseudo-solutions, your idealized self-image, your defense mechanisms have given | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| have found and dissolved the idealized self-image, the pseudo-solutions, etc. Hence, the small, precarious success you had | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| remedies against the illusory dread. These are the pseudo-solutions, connected with the idealized self-image. With these the | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| vigorous, you do not yet realize that your pseudo-solutions don't work. When you are successful, you believe | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| the point of utter discouragement. Each time the pseudo-solutions fail to work you despair, but since the | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| but since the entire process of having formed pseudo-solutions and what they are supposed to avoid is | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| have not worked hard enough to make the pseudo-solutions work, to get the false, idealized self across | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| the pathwork demolishes this pretense and the inefficient pseudo-solutions -- instead of strengthening them as one unconsciously | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| outer rules -- especially when combined with private pseudo-solutions -- may produce a need for total approval | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| my childhood, I discovered that one of my pseudo-solutions is to withdraw. Now, when I do withdraw | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| as each individual's character. We have often discussed pseudo-solutions. If you restudy them in light of this | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| into more confusion and pain. The three basic pseudo-solutions are simply means for conquering life on the | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| make impossible by the very use of these pseudo-solutions. Let us assume you wish love and closeness | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| developed, it recognized the distorted manifestations as illusory pseudo-solutions and designated them as neurotic states that the | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |