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over-identification

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  • I suspect that the reputation as an "outlaw" text to which I responded impatiently in my initial reading of On the Road, originates in an over-identification with Moriarty, who some readers took to be the novel's most important character.

    October 2009 2009

  • I suspect that the reputation as an "outlaw" text to which I responded impatiently in my initial reading of On the Road, originates in an over-identification with Moriarty, who some readers took to be the novel's most important character.

    Style in Fiction 2009

  • This over-identification leads to our reenacting incidents from our childhoods with our own children, especially the incidents that were traumatizing to us.

    Lisa Firestone: How to stop yourself from "losing it" with your child Lisa Firestone 2010

  • This over-identification blinds my vision to who I really am.

    Bob Lingvall: The Gift Of Not Finding Yourself Bob Lingvall 2011

  • I suspect that the reputation as an "outlaw" text to which I responded impatiently in my initial reading of On the Road, originates in an over-identification with Moriarty, who some readers took to be the novel's most important character.

    Kerouac the Writer 2009

  • This over-identification leads to our reenacting incidents from our childhoods with our own children, especially the incidents that were traumatizing to us.

    Lisa Firestone: How to stop yourself from "losing it" with your child Lisa Firestone 2010

  • In this he may be revealing the over-identification that is the chief danger of his parenting, the projected egotism of his need for his children's happiness, or a residual class assumption.

    At Last by Edward St Aubyn – review 2011

  • This over-identification leads to our reenacting incidents from our childhoods with our own children, especially the incidents that were traumatizing to us.

    Lisa Firestone: How to stop yourself from "losing it" with your child Lisa Firestone 2010

  • This over-identification blinds my vision to who I really am.

    Bob Lingvall: The Gift Of Not Finding Yourself Bob Lingvall 2011

  • One classical concept from mindfulness that seems ripe for translation is the principle of no-self: In other words, the dissolution of an over-identification with what at first glance seems to be I-me-mine.

    Susan Kaiser Greenland: The Branding Of Wisdom 2010

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