Meaning of culte du moi | Babel Free

Definitions

The cult of the ego; ego worship.

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Examples

“However, after a while, Barrès seems to have⟳ felt that the 'Culte de moi' was scarcely satisfactory as a rule⟳ of life, and in 1897, with 'Les deracinés,' began a new series of three novels under the collective title, 'Roman de l'énergie nationale.'”

“The culte du moi is one thing when it is representative, when one rhapsodizes one's self haughtily as a unit of the democratic mass, as Whitman undoubtedly did; and quite another when it is narrowly personal, a kind of glorification of the petty, personal attributes of young John Smith, used by him to conceal from himself the desirability; but that is what young John Smith, who calls himself a Whitmanite, is making of it.”

“The process⟳ of "elevations" must stamp⟳ out the "culte de moi" and replace⟳ it with the "culte de non-moi".”

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