Drawing on psychiatrist Murray Bowen’s family systems theory, Henri Tajfel’s minimal group experiments, and Gustave Le Bon’s study of crowds, Luke Burgis separates the “solid self” from the “pseudo self” that reshapes itself for every room, and how to preserve your truest essence.

Solid Self vs. Pseudo Self: How to Belong Without Losing Yourself

I’m Luke Burgis. I’m the founder and director of the Cluny Institute and the author of Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life and The One in the 99: Forging Identity in the Age of Social Contagion. Today on Big Think, we’re going to be looking at the two levels of the self, the solid self and the pseudo self. The three temptations of the screen and then courage and specifically the four forms of courage that allow us to live well in the modern world.

Chapter 1: Distinguishing a solid self and a pseudo self

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