Word: selfesteem
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...could not ultimately, not really, enforce the American will. Of more psychic importance, the war may have forever soured the almost subconscious, idealized conviction that Americans are somehow morally superior beings. My Lai, the massive bombing campaign, the image of a napalmed child?such things have corroded the American selfesteem. But how deeply...
...SELFESTEEM: "Integration does not seem to affect the self-esteem measures [of minority children] in any clearly consistent or significant...
...turkeys, sneakers and little clapboard banks. Today Rockwell's America may seem almost as distant as Thomas More's Utopia, but this sumptuous tome pleasurably suggests why his genre pieces, painterly apple-pie to the last brush stroke, defined a whole area of solid comfort and nostalgic selfesteem...
...begins in Rolfe's London apartment. Creditors banging at the door, an over-sexed matron after the rent, Rolfe drones away at his avocation of writing. After shuffling through one assumed identity after another all his life, he has little to comfort him but a purple neckscarf and his selfesteem. Besides his disappointments as an artist, his principal frustration is the failure to secure a "vocation" in the Church of Rome, to which he converted "overnight" at the age of 26. Not even a lowly "clerk" let alone a prelate, this blustery paranoid and repressed homosexual aspires...
...deeply prejudiced frequently use this paranoid mechanism to avoid facing painful truths about unacceptable impulses and fears within themselves. Racist feelings can unconsciously become deeply enmeshed in one's own psyche and serve neurotic needs in an effort to shore up a shaky emotional equilibrium and sense of selfesteem. Because of their abuse and rejection of blacks, many whites have developed a great deal of understandable guilt, but since this too is an unpleasant emotional feeling, they have tried to avoid it by further rationalizations. This often reinforces prejudices and creates a vicious circle of negative defenses. For example...