#existentialism

• Annihilate — To destroy completely, to annihilate, to reduce to nothingness (nothing); to structurally or spiritually abolish. In existentialist philosophy (notably Sartre), it describes the human consciousness action of introducing nothingness or negation into reality's structure.
• Annihilation — The action of annihilating or the result thereof; total destruction, complete annihilation, reduction to nothingness. As a structural concept in deep psychology and existential philosophy, it represents the conscious or unconscious process of ego dissolution.
• Annihilated — Completely destroyed, annihilated, or reduced to nothingness; structurally, physically, or spiritually abolished. In existentialist contexts, it describes the state of an object or conscious self that has undergone a total erasure of meaning or radical isolation from objective reality.
• To self-define — To determine, formulate, or establish on one's own initiative one's own identity, essence, life principles, or social and cultural affiliation; to consciously and autonomously characterize oneself, formulating an internal definition of one's own ego. This behavior represents a structural mechanism of psychological individualization and existential self-affirmation.
• Self-definition — The act of self-defining and its result; the conscious and autonomous process through which a person or a group formulates their own identity, establishing their essence, fundamental values, and role in society. This structural act of introspection and conceptual boundary-setting prevents the imposition of external labels and supports psychological individualization.
• To self-mystify — To delude or deceive oneself; to deliberately or unconsciously create illusions, personal myths, or false convictions about one's own qualities, deeds, or external realities, rejecting objective truth. In depth psychology and existentialism, the verb describes a complex process of bad faith whereby the individual escapes responsibility and reality, constructing a fictional universe meant to protect their ego from anxiety and guilt.
• Self-mystification — The act, process, or tendency to delude or deceive oneself; the unconscious or deliberate construction of illusions, personal myths, or false scenarios aimed at masking the objective truth about one's own flaws, failures, or external realities. In cognitive psychology and existentialism, it represents a complex defensive mechanism associated with the concept of bad faith, through which an individual distorts their own consciousness to reduce anxiety, guilt, or cognitive dissonance without confronting real facts.
• To self-mutilate — To voluntarily, deliberately, and consciously inflict severe wounds, bodily injuries, amputations, or tissue destructions upon one's own body, without direct suicidal intent, but as a manifestation of a severe mental disorder. In clinical psychology and psychiatry, this reflexive behavior often represents a maladaptive mechanism for discharging intolerable anxiety, encountered in borderline personality disorder, severe psychoses, or non-suicidal self-injury episodes.