Understanding oneself is a great luxury. And not just in existential but also in dumbly economic terms.
For the less fortunate, there is a cheap alternative: joining an identity group! The more active people are in constructing their identity category, the more wounded they are.
Here is an interesting article on the subject. Of course, compared to its author, I’m even more privileged because I undergo a much more complex, slow, in-depth and expensive form of therapy.
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