Ascetic

Restraint of physical desires, usually in an attempt to realise inner self, but often from inner personal conflicts with such things as sexual urges or anxieties.

Conflict with natural drives; desire to be less dominated by same; avoidance of sex; an attempt to find the spiritual, that may be an inverted fear of one’s unconscious or a bid for power to control; development of will. See: ascetic under archetypes; religion and dreams. See: Roles.