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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

... Nebridius, my sweet friend'; and from that to the saint's rare, last ecstasy: 'And sometimes Thou admittedst me to an affection, very unusual, in my inmost soul, rising to a strange sweetness, which if it were perfected in me, I know not what in it would not belong to the life to come.' And even self-analysis, of which there is so much, becoming at times a kind of mathematics, even those metaphysical subtleties which seem, to sharpen thought upon thought to an almost invisible fineness of edge, become also lyrical, inter-penetrated ...

— Figures of Several Centuries • Arthur Symons

... experienced a glow of pride each time he read this part of the letter. He liked the frankness of the lack of pretence; he admired the penetration and self-analysis which had taught her the truth that, although learning a new thing is always interesting, the practising of an old one is monotonous. And her pluck appealed to him. It is not easy for a girl to step from the position of mistress ...

— The Blazed Trail • Stewart Edward White

Words linked to "Self-analysis" : introspection, psychotherapy, self-examination, self-contemplation