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- the term used by Spanish philosopher Ortega Y. Gasset to describe dehumanization. He says that man is the only being that lives from within. To be truly human is to have an inner self, a life from within. Animals live in constant vigilance, always on guard, looking outside themselves and for sustenance. When humans no longer have an inner life, they become otherated and dehumanized.    Toxic shame, with it’s more-than-human-less-than-human polarization is either inhuman or dehumanizing. The demand for a false self to cover and hide the authentic self necessitates a life dominated by doing and achievement. Everything depends on performance rather than being.