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Self-analysis

noun

A penetrating examination of your own beliefs and motives. Synonym: soul-searching.

The application of psychotherapeutic principles to the analysis of your own personality.

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"Self-analysis" Quotes from Famous Books

... was still young, as every man of forty-three will agree, but he was getting older. A few years ago a windfall of three hundred and forty-one pounds would not have been followed by morbid self-analysis; it would have been followed by unreasoning, instinctive elation, which elation would have endured ...

— The Regent • E. Arnold Bennett

... much given to self-analysis, she now found herself wondering at herself. What could be the matter with her? Why must she love this rascal? Why could she not fall in love with some decent, clean, patriotic young American, with some man like Thomas Dean? Chauffeur though he was now pretending to be, she knew ...

— The Apartment Next Door • William Andrew Johnston

... small voice, silky and queer; and at first Hedrick had little suspicion that it could be addressing him: the most rigid self-analysis could have revealed to him no possibility of his ...

— The Flirt • Booth Tarkington

... me thoughtfully. "You may sneer, Pope, my boy," he commented. "But this sort of thing has come to stay. The infants are imbibing it with their bottles—self-expression, self-analysis ...

— Paradise Garden - The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment • George Gibbs

... little faith in his power as a writer, did not alter her nor diminish her in Martin's eyes. In the breathing spell of the vacation he had taken, he had spent many hours in self-analysis, and thereby learned much of himself. He had discovered that he loved beauty more than fame, and that what desire he had for fame was largely for Ruth's sake. It was for this reason that his desire for fame was strong. He wanted to be great in ...

— Martin Eden • Jack London

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