The Task of Analytic Psychology

“…is to identify the false self” (or) the “mask of accommodation, (or) defensive structure (that) prevents our core nature from dealing with:

  • fear
  • pain
  • anger
  • excitement
  • desire
  • loss

John P. Conger, The Body in Recovery

The way the false self deals with these is through the neuroses of repression, sublimation and others and in physiological dis-ease.