Exercise 11: on the influence of the Idealized Self Image

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Do you recognize within you a desire to be faultless, to be perfect in all regards?

Do you strive to appear faultless to those you interact with?

Do you often blame others, fate, or other external factors to explain your occasional “failures” to cope with the high demands of your own expectations about yourself?

What do you think of the need to always appear to be right and perfect? Is this a real need of the self or a false need created by the personality?

Do you think that being right and perfect is a requirement for success? Should it always be made apparent in all circumstances?

Do you feel guilty when you realize you’ve made a mistake? Which could lead to greater guilt; The fact of being mistaken or the concealment of the error?

How do you see the conflict between the need to look right and the guilt for concealment or disguise of an error?

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