The Great Heist

Echo+Self

If you want to know yourself, really know yourself; look not inward but at the things you do to others. If you want to know what you like, look at the things you like and appreciate in others. Want to know how you love to be treated? Look at how you treat others—do you treat with them with respect or loyalty? Want to know if you like gifts and surprises? See if you shower others with surprises and gifts. Do you give your all in whatever you do for others? Do you devote your time and energy in a relationship? If yes, then that’s exactly what you desire in return.
The workings of the human psyche are as simple as that. The personality of man, however, complex can be examined through these little things. For most times in life, the true self shouldn’t be seen as the looking glass, but as an Echo, which repeats what has been said to it. I hold this to be true that we humans are very much like Echo—the Oread—who lost his voice after being punished by Hera, and could only mimic the voices of others.
Basically, the Echo+Self—a personality psychology/psychoanalysis—theory is conceptualized from the phenomenon called Echo/the Grecian myth of Echo. The self is thus seen/viewed as speaking in a cavernous chamber and the resounding echo thereof. Where the speaking itself is motivation and booming echo, the reward.
Just like the echo poems developed by Aurélien Dauguet in 1972, where there is no next line without the refrain from Echo, there is no Self without the Echo.
However, whenever we’re unable to strike a balance/when these conditions are not met in any human relations, be it friendship, relationship, and even in a social or political setup, it stirred the wrong and strongest of emotions in us: hate, disgust, fear, sadness, repulsion, anger, bitterness, hurt and so on.
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Conversely, if you want to know someone, really know them. Look not at the grand or magnificent things that they do, but rather at how they do the little, insignificant ones: how they treat plants, how they place their shoes before entering a house, how they walk, the manner with which they cross the road. In these little things are the strong pointers to who and what they really are.

The human psyche has been a thing of curiosity to me for some a while now. Now my inquisitiveness had me foraying into psychology’s uncharted territory/had me charting a course for psychology’s strange waters.