Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.
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More and more individuals, owing to their bloodless indolence, will aspire to be nothing at all – in order to become the public: that abstract whole formed in the most ludicrous way, by all participants becoming a third party (an onlooker).
In order than everything should be reduced to the same level, it is first of all necessary to procure a phantom, its spirit, a monstrous abstraction, an all-embracing something which is nothing, a mirage – and that phantom is the public.