Meaning of selving | Babel Free

Definitions

The formation or modification of one's identity.

uncountable

Examples

“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.”

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