self-deficient

adj

Etymology

From self- + deficient.

Definitions

  1. Deficient in itself

    Deficient in itself; not whole or complete; lacking.

    • It was a self-deficient people with whom the self-deficient Hitler achieved that peculiar empathy: a resonance of injured self on injured self. Both shamed, they became united.
    • Importantly, however, researchers and philosophers contend that the ego that is created is not who an individual actually is since the ego erroneously believes that the true nature of oneself is self-deficient.

The neighborhood

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