#self-denial

• Asceticism — A rigorous moral attitude and lifestyle consisting of the renunciation of worldly pleasures, material comfort, and the gratification of bodily desires, aimed at achieving spiritual perfection, moral purification, or a higher state of enlightenment. This structural behavior often involves severe practices such as fasting, deep meditation, voluntary isolation, and asceticism.
• Self-negation — The act of self-denying and its result; a structural or psychic process through which a subject, principle, or system negates its own validity, identity, or substance. In modern philosophical theories, it represents a crucial moment in the development of ideas, where internal contradiction becomes the engine of evolution, while clinically it is associated with severe emotional self-sabotage.