This is consistent with Winnicott's notion of True(authentic) and False Self(1960).
This is what Dabrowski called your‘true essence', or what Winnicott considered your‘true self'.
Winnicott wrote about“annihilation anxiety”(1965),
and those who have suffered traumatic losses or various types of abandonment may experience this.
Like the narcissistic personality disorder,
they have learned to conceal their deeply wounded true selves behind what Winnicott called a"false self.".
One psychologist, Winnicott, has been working with a particular problem
with small children for many years, and he has discovered many beautiful things.
Donald Winnicott used the term“transitional object” for the blankets
or stuffed animals or whatever it is that children use to comfort themselves in times of distress(1953).
Winnicott suggested play was a way of reaching the authentic,
creative, less-defended part of a person's personality- i.e. the“True” self, in terms of his True and False Self distinction(1960).
Physician and Psychoanalyst, Donald Winnicott, proposed a theory of self that posited there was
a“true self” that is the instinctive core of our personality and must be nurtured and realized.
Winnicott made the point that being responded to on the basis
of being seen clearly both helps a baby to learn to know her/himself and establishes a foundation for trust in the outside world.