3-      Model of self-acceptance

A way surely more objective and realistic, compared to the two preceding models, as a way to consider the interior and intra-psychic world is the model that we might call acceptance. The term comes from the psychological and psycho-therapeutic field, especially from the area of humanist psychology, and refers to the importance of looking at oneself with a kind eye, without the self-condemnations of the perfection model, which slowly lead to a low self-esteem or even to self-rejection; nor the narcissistic frenzy of the self-fulfillment model, which end up being misleading in relation to the priestly-religious ideal. But the underlying logic is still and always that of the ego which remains inside its world, of the “self”.