What Maria Popova thinks about Psychodynamic therapy

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1. 27 Sept 2026

   Our readingBeneath the shifting multiplicity of selves lies a constant, often called the soul, that can be uncovered only at great cost to the ego.

   Their wordsThere is but a single salve for this disorientation - to uncover, often at a staggering cost to the ego, the constant beneath this flickering constellation, a constant some may call soul.

   ↗Hermann Hesse on Discovering the Soul Beneath the Self and the Key to Finding Peacethemarginalian.org 2nd of 2 in this piece