Meaning of self in English

Our inner selves are always barricaded behind codes of language.

Every item in the world, from stars to selves, is simply part of a divine mind, the thinking of which constitutes all of reality.

Narratives are seen, then, both as rhetorical ploys (disguising genuine selves) and as the very thing that guarantees our ability to have selves.

The duality is between the public and private selves of the candidates.

We interpreted this joining of multiple selves as an instance of what one might call a ' shared world ' persona.

More recently, however, identity has been seen as an ongoing and performative process in which individuals draw on diverse resources to construct selves.

Through the elaborate construction of selves in particular relations with one another, the way was prepared for psychologists to claim authority to define this reality.

In both these examples my future selves are contingent, which means that only the past and present preferences should rule.

Instead, each of the person's contingent selves should have a say.

Such facts comprise an important part of who they are, their natures or selves.

In search of new selves : accommodating to widowhood.

The mind was the 'zone of engagement' for the dynamics of attachment and detachment which articulated the relations of courtly selves.

Alternatively, there may be a "discordant splitting" if one's different selves are experienced as contradictory.

If it is, then it is hard to see why the state should have any concern for older selves.

Ethics are the preconditions for society, which is, in turn, the precondition for the creation of selves.

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