self-love

For someone with anorexia, self-starvation makes them feel better.

In this case, I suspect, there was co-operant a strongly marked childish characteristic, the love of producing an effect.

Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

The well-known "cock and bull" stories of small children are inspired by this love of strong effect.

Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.

At present, Louis was too self-absorbed by the struggles within him, to look deep into what was passing around him.