ABSTRACT
The development in psycho-analysis has been the increasing use of the concept of the False Self. This concept carries with it the idea of a True Self. A particular danger arises out of the not infrequent tie-up between the intellectual approach and the False Self. When a False Self becomes organized in an individual who has a high intellectual potential there is a very strong tendency for the mind to become the location of the False Self, and in this case there develops a dissociation between intellectual activity and psychosomatic existence. The concept of "A False Self" needs to be balanced by a formulation of that which could properly be called the True Self. Only the True Self can be creative and only the True Self can feel real. Whereas a True Self feels real, the existence of a False Self results in a feeling unreal or a sense of futility.
