empirical self
collocation in Englishmeaningsofempiricalandself
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empirical
adjective
uk/ɪmˈpɪr.ɪ.kəl/us/emˈpɪr.ɪ.kəl/
based on what is experienced or seen rather than ...
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self
noun
uk/self/us/self/
the set of someone's characteristics, such as personality and ability, that are not physical and make that person different from ...
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(Definition ofempiricalandselffrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofempirical self
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The experience of fate as such can exist only through theempiricalselfand its struggle with desire.
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In this picture, theempiricalselfcomes into being through the constraint of desire.
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The condition of fulfillment that precedes the sense of lack created by theempiricalselfis anterior to language and signification, inaccessible to - consciousness.
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The theologian's strictures are designed to consolidate the boundaries of theempiricalselfand regulate the order of everyday life.
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The idealized beloved and theempiricalselfconstitute the illusory dyad of alienation.
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Both the panegyric and the wine poem begin with the condition of separation definitive of theempiricalself, figured through the idealized, unattainable beloved.
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From the perspective of this realm of pleasure and freedom, the components of normativity, of everyday life, of theempiricalself, are mere contingencies.
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The wine poem enables us to understand the condition of separation through the picture it gives of theempiricalselfand its struggle with desire.
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The idealized beloved thereby becomes the poetic emblem of the endlessly thwarted desire for self-completion definitive of theempiricalselfand its everyday existence.
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Theempiricalself, determined by all of these contingent factors, can never succeed in winning the struggle with desire by taking up all of desire into itself.
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The elimination of care is therefore attended by various forms of excess through which the drinker exceeds the bounds of theempiricalselfordinarily under rational control.
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This utter loss of face, more hateful to most people than death, the drinker welcomes, showing that the contingencies of hisempiricalselfhave been completely cast off.
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Desire is absolute in that it demands nothing short of total release and can only be converted into a form commensurate with itself; the artificialempiricalselfcannot contain it.
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