To me, sentimentality is not genuine feeling. Sentimental people tend to ignore their own shadow, their own darkness. They cover up their real suffering with self-pity, for example, and stultify their own growth.~Marion Woodman
Unless I am able to analyze the unconscious aspects of the society in which I live, I cannot know who I am, because I don’t know which part of me is not me.~Erich Fromm, The Art of Being