Is there such a thing as a 'true self'?
- Written by Nick Haslam, Professor of Psychology, University of Melbourne
Central elements of the self are understood variously as being relatively deep, authentic, intrinsic or essential.pixabay“To thine own self be true”, the saying goes. It is often taken as sage advice, a remnant scrap of Elizabethan life coaching, but Shakespeare may have meant it to be heard as a stale platitude. He puts it in the...
