Concept

Renunciation

Overview

act of renouncing something one currently enjoyed or endorsed

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The omission of one renunciation is cancelled through a renunciation at some other point. This would lead us to conclude that, as far as taboo ceremonials are concerned, penance is more primitive than purification.
Sigmund Freud, Totem and taboo
Names Renunciation several times; states what Renunciation is.
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It simply carries on the severity of external authority which it has succeeded and to some extent replaced. We see now how renunciation of instinctual gratification is related to the sense of guilt. Originally, it is true, renunciation is the consequence of a dread of external authority; one gives up pleasures so as not to lose its love. Having made this renunciation, one is quits with authority, so to speak; no…
Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its discontents
Names Renunciation several times; states what Renunciation is.
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But passive renunciation is not the whole of wisdom; for not by renunciation alone can we build a temple for the worship of our own ideals. Haunting foreshadowings of the temple appear in the realm of imagination, in music, in architecture, in the untroubled kingdom of reason, and in the golden sunset magic of lyrics, where beauty shines and glows, remote…
Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
States what Renunciation is; names Renunciation several times.
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