True self and false self damaged remnants of the self, than to achieve coherence through identification with an external personality at the cost of one's own autonomous creativity. Alexander Lowen identified narcissists as having a true and a false, or superficial, self. The false self rests on the surface, as the self presented to the world. It stands in contrast to the true self, which resides behind the facade or image. This true self is the feeling self, but it is a self that must be hidden and denied. Since the superficial self represents submission and conformity, the inner or true self is rebellious and
Less Than Zero (song) the plan to switch songs, inspired by a live performance on the BBC's "The Lulu Show" in 1969 in which Jimi Hendrix had scrapped a performance of Hey Joe after a few bars to instead play an impromptu tribute to Cream, who had broken up just days before. "Less Than Zero" appears on the first Stiff Records compilation; "A Bunch of Stiff Records", whilst the B-side, "Radio Sweetheart", appears on their second; "Hits Greatest Stiffs". Less Than Zero (song) "Less Than Zero" is the eighth track on Elvis Costello's debut album "My Aim Is True", and the first Costello single