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“I was always made to feel that I’m too much… that my needs are not reasonable” . That childhood belief did not vanish when he became an adult. It organized his entire emotional life.

Spinoza would say this is how conatus becomes distorted — the body’s natural striving to persist becomes tangled in imagination and turns into desire for approval, safety, or redemption. Martin Butler calls this the fantasy self — the version of you that exists only to survive psychologically, not to see.

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Spinoza's Ethics: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FR4R9TW5

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Negative Philosophy & Martin Butler
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Books
Mad Dog: https://a.co/d/fzzAoQO
A Minority Interest: https://a.co/d/2PePYSb
Conversations With Jelly: https://a.co/d/1DxJtXF
The Corporeal Fantasy: https://a.co/d/bBRdPb1
Easy: https://a.co/d/9iB0SVD