Meaning of self-deficient | Babel Free

Definitions

Deficient in itself; not whole or complete; lacking.

Examples

“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.”

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