I assume that she is invoking the liberal, atomistic concept of selfhood which posits a self prior to social relations. |
Identity in these contemporary worlds, writes Bean and Moni, is constructed through the consumption of goods with selfhood vested in things. |
Through his constant narrativizing, Ambrose constructs a portrait of himself as a fiction and his narratives constitute his selfhood. |
The book's exultation of romantic selfhood and all-consuming passion was another source of worry for Victorian critics. |
It's like a hothouse, in whose controlled climate people can develop their selfhood to the full. |
In the process of unpicking his feelings about the issue, he has extrapolated a model of the relationship between created work and selfhood. |