Selving

Quick meaning: Selving is a noun meaning The formation or modification of one's identity.

Meaning

The formation or modification of one's identity.

Example Sentences

The selving process is one that cannot be reduced to origins or to a repetition of antecedent/repressed conditions.

Moral selving among the drafted volunteers at The Salvation Army exposed an organization that believed in mandated change.

In these novels, one comes to understand, as I elaborate in Chapter 5, the ways in which intercultural negotiations can become forms not only of 'othering' but also of selving – of processes by which one might reconstitute one's own self.

In the course of this work it was borne in on me, increasingly, that the notion of I-schemes, schemes of selving, as the basic structures of our dynamic selves is congruent with developing directions of inquiry both within psychoanalysis and outside it.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include individuation, splitting, self-characterization, self, self-discovery, selfhood.

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