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Erich Fromm, Escape, Feelings, Freedom, Psychology, Rationalizing, Reality
Rationalizing is not a tool for penetration of reality but a post-factum attempt to harmonize one’s own wishes with existing realiity. […]
With feelings as with thinking, one must distinguish between a genuine feeling, which originates in ourselves, and a pseudo feeling, which is really not our own although we believe it to be.
From: Escape from Freedom, Erich Fromm.