1. Alienation from oneself defi nes the primary relationship of the
subject to itself. As a result, self-knowledge is a rare achievement
requiring a novel method: a systematic attempt to uncover all
that one doesn’t want to know about oneself. Reflection doesn’t
confirm a cogito; it reveals a fundamental self-division between
the defenses that create and sustain the ego and the core confl icts
that are thereby “repressed.” Psyche, as opposed to ego, is the
dynamic we engage whenever we open the crypt of all that we’ve
buried in ourselves.