self-analysis
Looking inward deliberately
Self-analysis is examination of one's own thoughts, feelings, motives, or behavior.
The term often appears in psychological contexts, where it may substitute for or supplement therapy: Years of self-analysis helped her understand her patterns in relationships.
In professional settings, self-analysis means honest assessment of one's strengths and weaknesses: The job application required a written self-analysis.
Probing one's innermost feelings
- navel-gazingExcessive inward contemplation
- journalingRegular personal writing practice
- meditationFocused attention practice
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
Perceiving something as known
- realizationGrasping what's true
- understandingMental comprehension of something
- clarityState of being understandable
- discernmentKeen perception and judgment
mindfulness · consciousness · perception · attunement · presence · sensitivity · enlightenment · awakening
Of unconscious-mind theory
- JungianOf analytical psychology
- therapyCurative mental treatment
- subconsciousBelow conscious awareness
- unconsciousNot awake or aware
ego · id · superego · projection · transference · repression · cognitive-behavioral · inner-child
Thorough change in form
- insightDeep perceptive understanding
- breakthroughSudden important advance
- potentialLatent capacity for development
- empowermentGaining authority or confidence
learning · progress · maturation · evolution · goal-setting · strengths · weaknesses · accountability
soul-searching
Probing one's innermost feelings
- navel-gazingExcessive inward contemplation
- journalingRegular personal writing practice
- meditationFocused attention practice
recognition
Perceiving something as known
- realizationGrasping what's true
- understandingMental comprehension of something
- clarityState of being understandable
discernment · mindfulness · consciousness · perception · attunement · presence · sensitivity · enlightenment · awakening · metacognition
Freudian
Of unconscious-mind theory
- JungianOf analytical psychology
- therapyCurative mental treatment
- subconsciousBelow conscious awareness
unconscious · ego · id · superego · projection · transference · repression · cognitive-behavioral · inner-child · trauma
transformation
Thorough change in form
- insightDeep perceptive understanding
- breakthroughSudden important advance
- potentialLatent capacity for development
empowerment · learning · progress · maturation · evolution · goal-setting · strengths · weaknesses · accountability · resilience
- contemplationcontemplation, meditation, reflection, pondering, musing
- inner lifeidentity, feelings, memory, thoughts, private thoughts
- introspectionintrospection, soul searching, looking inward, soul-searching, inner dialogue
- personal writingsdiaries, journals, memoirs, love letters, autobiographies
- self-evaluationintrospection, personal inventory, strengths, weaknesses, blind spots
- self-reflectionjournaling, introspection, soul-searching, contemplation, reflective writing
self-analysispeer review
Expert evaluation before publication
performance review · external audit · clinical assessment · psychoanalysis · therapy
self-analysisunreflectiveness
Absence of self-examination
denial · obliviousness · unconsciousness · self-deception · repression
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