self-analysis
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Self-analysis, that rude guest who comes sometimes, as unbidden and unwelcome as a constable, to set all one's favorite vanities out of doors and evict one's self-complacency, had intruded upon her thoughts.
From Destiny by Buck, Charles Neville
Self-analysis is the basis of psychological knowledge, but the science has been chiefly used to explain the methods by which we obtain knowledge of the outer world in relation to ourselves.
From Cobwebs of Thought by Arachne
Self-analysis played no part in his mental process as he swung down the steep, familiar streets.
From Max by Thurston, Katherine Cecil
Self-analysis is intimate if unreliable, but by this token worthy of study.
From Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods by Hollingworth, Harry L.
Self-analysis laid his pride in the dust and made him writhe in self-condemnation.
From Banked Fires by Savi, E. W. (Ethel Winifred)
