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| <fc green>Definitions of **inflation**:</fc>\\ | <fc green>Definitions of **inflation**:</fc>\\ |
| §227 "I would suggest that we speak instead of "psychic inflation." The term seems to me appropriate in so far as the state we are discussing involves an extension of the personality beyond individual limits, in other words, a state of being puffed up. In such a state a man fills a space which normally he cannot fill. He can only fill it by appropriating to himself contents and qualities which properly exist for themselves alone and should there- fore remain outside our bounds. What lies outside ourselves belongs either to someone else, or to everyone, or to no one. ... \\ <fc green>A good example of inflation - the office:\\ When, therefore, I identify myself with my office or title, 1 behave as though I myself were the whole complex of social factors of which that office consists, or as though I were not only the bearer of the office, but also and at the same time the approval of society." | §227 "I would suggest that we speak instead of "psychic inflation." The term seems to me appropriate in so far as the state we are discussing involves an extension of the personality beyond individual limits, in other words, a state of being puffed up. In such a state a man fills a space which normally he cannot fill. He can only fill it by appropriating to himself contents and qualities which properly exist for themselves alone and should there- fore remain outside our bounds. What lies outside ourselves belongs either to someone else, or to everyone, or to no one. ... \\ <fc green>A good example of inflation - the office:</fc>\\ When, therefore, I identify myself with my office or title, 1 behave as though I myself were the whole complex of social factors of which that office consists, or as though I were not only the bearer of the office, but also and at the same time the approval of society." |
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| §228 <fc green>The locksmith apprentice</fc> | §228 <fc green>The locksmith apprentice</fc> |