The neurotic rejects his Actual Self and hates it because it is imperfect. In its place he tries to create a fictitious ideal self which is already perfect, has already “arrived.” Trying to maintain the sham and fiction is not only a terrific mental strain, but he continually invites disappointment and frustration when he tries to operate in a real world with a fictitious self.
This perfect mental imave you've constructed of yourself only dissapoints and unmotivates
