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Concept
Outline of self
Summary
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the human self:
Self – individuality, from one's own perspective. To each person, self is that person. Oneself can be a subject of philosophy, psychology and developmental psychology; religion and spirituality, social science and neuroscience.
Human
Human condition
Individuality (selfhood) – state or quality of being an individual; particularly of being a person separate from other persons and possessing his or her own needs or goals, rights and responsibilities. The exact definition of an individual is important in the fields of biology, law, and philosophy.
Person – being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility.
Personhood – status of being a person. Defining personhood is a controversial topic in philosophy and law and is closely tied with legal and political concepts of citizenship, equality, and liberty. According to law, only a natural person or legal personality has rights, protections, privileges, responsibilities, and legal liability.
Philosophy of self
Psychology of self
Religious views on the self
Body
Brain / Mind / Intelligence
Character
Experience
Sentience
Gender
Personal identity (see below)
Personality (see below)
Self-concept
Self-awareness
Self-consciousness
Self-control
Self-esteem
Self-guilt
Self-knowledge
Self-perception
Self-realization
Self-worth
Skill
Wisdom
Personal identity
Identity (philosophy)
Identity (social science)
Identity formation
Cultural identity
Moral identity
Social identity
Open individualism
Personally identifiable information
Self-identity
Self-schema
Vertiginous question
Personality
Personality trait
Big Five personality traits
Extraversion and introversion
Agreeableness
Conscientiousness
Neuroticism / Emotional stability
Openness to experience
Virtue – characteristic of a person which supports individual moral excellence and collective well-being.
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Self-schema
The self-schema refers to a long lasting and stable set of memories that summarize a person's beliefs, experiences and generalizations about the self, in specific behavioral domains. A person may have a self-schema based on any aspect of themselves as a person, including physical characteristics (body image), personality traits and interests, as long as they consider that aspect of their self to be important to their own self-definition.
Psychology of self
The psychology of self is the study of either the cognitive, conative or affective representation of one's identity, or the subject of experience. The earliest formulation of the self in modern psychology derived from the distinction between the self as I, the subjective knower, and the self as Me, the object that is known. Current views of the self in psychology position the self as playing an integral part in human motivation, cognition, affect, and social identity.
Self-actualization
Self-actualization, in Maslow's hierarchy of needs, is the highest level of psychological development, where personal potential is fully realized after basic bodily and ego needs have been fulfilled. Self-actualization was coined by the organismic theorist Kurt Goldstein for the motive to realize one's full potential: "the tendency to actualize itself as fully as possible is the basic drive ... the drive of self-actualization." Carl Rogers similarly wrote of "the curative force in psychotherapy - man's tendency to actualize himself, to become his potentialities .