  Owing to the conflicted states of embodied persons, they are subject to self-contempt and yet, paradoxically, ‘want to belong to themselves’.  Persons have contempt for themselves because one has contempt for what is inferior to oneself.  Insofar as persons desire things other than what Intellect desires, they desire things that are external to themselves.  But the subject of such desires is inferior to what is desired, even if this be a state of fulfilled desire.  In other words, if someone wants to be in state B when he is in state A, he must regard being in state A as worse than being in state B.  But all states of embodied desire are like this.  Hence, the self-contempt.