Lecture: Opening to self-love
KIRK: Don’t be afraid. Here’s my hand. Hold on. You don’t have to be afraid. I won’t let go. Hold on. You won’t be afraid if you use your mind and think! Think! You can do it. That’s it!
MCCOY: Jim, he is back! Jim, you can use that brandy now. In fact, I’ll join you.
KIRK: I have to take him back inside myself. I can’t survive without him. I don’t want him back. He’s like an animal, a thoughtless, brutal animal, and yet it’s me. Me.
MCCOY: Jim, you’re no different than anyone else. We all have our darker side. We need it! It’s half of what we are. It’s not really ugly, it’s human.
Kirk here demonstrates how to approach the animal self. The animal wants to trust the paladin soul who imposes the categorical imperative from alien realm beyond the sphere of the organism. You often attack it so it’s rightly scared. Tell it—
I won’t let go. Hold on. You won’t be afraid if you use your mind and think! Think! You can do it.
Ask the animal to wear the goggles of the universal to situate it as a value inside the social. When the selfish self sees that having good standing among others is pro-survival, it will go along. Teaching enlightened self-interest to the animal is the way to unify the conflicting selves.