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People in Quandaries

nature

General Semantics turned on ordinary unhappiness — perfectionism, the gap between the idealised self and the actual one, what Johnson called IFD disease: Idealisation, Frustration, Demoralisation.

The direct ancestor of "I am a failure" as the sentence this whole tradition most wants to dismantle.

rhymes with

sephirahgevurah

whyThe judgement one passes on oneself, examined as a grammatical habit.

tags

IFD disease · stuttering · perfectionism

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