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Building on earlier work on the configural self and the dwelling places of self-experience, I rethink the traditionally unitary concept of self-esteem to show that self-worth is processed simultaneously but differently on multiple levels. The self-other representational dimension usually referred to when we talk about multiplicity does not in itself fully capture the various ways in which a person feels “various.” This paper also discusses the intergenerational transmission of contradictory senses of self-worth and how a person's awareness of the multiplicity of self-regard can be harnessed to promote relating to oneself therapeutically.