self-construction

Humberto R. Maturana and Francisco J. Varela, Autopoiesis and Cognition — epistemology of self-construction by organisms.

Matthew Yglesias » Influential Books 2010

But to pretend that Palin isn't part of the ruling elite (and thus ostensibly "part of the problem") as opposed to her self-construction as an anti-elite crusader, is to dangerously "misunderestimate" (to quote the quintessential example) the lockstep power of the media in constructing our shared reality.

Randall Amster: First Amendment Remedies: Hey, Sarah, Refudiate This Randall Amster 2011

At the heart of the novel lies an unresolved tension between the belief that we are to some extent stable in our selves, that we do have an essential core that never changes, and the uneasy recognition that empirical evidence points to the contrary, that we are all actors involved in a lengthy and risky process of self-construction.

Molly Fox’s Birthday « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

"Confession" itself becomes, at best, a form of perversely-cliched fantasy (as in the case of Gunther Rascha, who falsely confesses to Bliss' death in order to represent himself as...ick...her true beloved), at worst a method of self-construction for the highest bidder (as in Betsey's multiple memoirs and self-help books).

The Little Professor: 2009

"Confession" itself becomes, at best, a form of perversely-cliched fantasy (as in the case of Gunther Rascha, who falsely confesses to Bliss' death in order to represent himself as...ick...her true beloved), at worst a method of self-construction for the highest bidder (as in Betsey's multiple memoirs and self-help books).

My Sister, My Love 2009

Because she saw her own growth and development with clarity and insight — because she knew what self-motivation and self-construction could do — she imagined schools that might be structured toward the all-around development of the individual, places where the full development of each would be the condition for the full development of all.

October « 2007 « Bill Ayers 2007

Because she saw her own growth and development with clarity and insight — because she knew what self-motivation and self-construction could do — she imagined schools that might be structured toward the all-around development of the individual, places where the full development of each would be the condition for the full development of all.

A Note on Ann Schubert 2007

I have already suggested that Equiano's self-construction as the object of George's desire constitutes the abasement necessary for Equiano's masochistic identification with the invisible church.

The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006

You're not in some kind of spiritual self-construction project.

As I Lay Dying: Meditations Upon Returning 2002

The former erasure allows room for unrestrained stereotyping of the Indian characters on stage while the latter augmentation forestalls volatile problems in the imperial self-construction of the audience.

Through Colonial Spectacles: the Irish Vizier and the Female-Knight in James Cobb 2000