Abandoned by My Self: Forms of Self-Rejection

• Authors: Wałejko Małgorzata

Title variants

PL

Opuszczeni przez siebie samych. Formy samo-odrzucenia

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Loneliness is usually defined as a feeling of lacking expected social relation-ships, being abandoned or being rejected by others. However, there is also the loneli-ness of self-rejection. There can be no deeper form of loneliness than being abandoned by one’s own self. In this article, I analyse what self-rejection is, how it is demonstrated and what forms it can take. I illustrate the ethical aspect of the phenomenon and pro-pose the direction of possible intervention.

PL

Samotność jest zwykle definiowana jako poczucie braku oczekiwanych relacji społecznych, opuszczenie lub odrzucenie przez innych. Istnieje jednak osamot-nienie wynikające z odrzucenia siebie. Nie ma głębszej postaci osamotnienia niż bycie opuszczonym przez siebie samego. W artykule analizuję, czym jest samo-odrzucenie, jak się objawia i jakie może przybierać formy. Zarysowuję etyczny aspekt zjawiska oraz kierunek możliwej interwencji.

Keywords

EN

self-rejection; loneliness; self-love; self-respect; self-compassion

PL

samo-odrzucenie; osamotnienie; miłość siebie; szacunek do siebie; współczucie dla siebie

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu. Wydawnictwo UMK
• Journal: Paedagogia Christiana
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 2/54
• Pages: 127-146

Contributors

author

Wałejko Małgorzata

• University of Szczecin

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1979-0001

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12775/PCh.2024.020