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The implications of the concept of the self as synonymous with the human person are explored. The concept of the self encompasses all the attributes, capacities, functions, and characteristics of the person, including mental and bodily aspects. The concept reflects the integrated, substantial, structural, and physical reality of the person as an individual functioning human being. As such, the concept of the self is differentiated from relational and intersubjective formulations that conceptualize the self in experiential, subjective, or intersubjective and/or interlocutive terms. The self-as-person is capable of interpersonal relatedness, interaction, and dialogue, but is not defined by or constituted by them. The concept of identity is explored in relation to the nature of the self (= person). Identity, as originally conceived by Erikson, is better referred to the self-as-object as its primary reference, rather than to the self-as-agent or as-subject, although both as agent and as subject the self is involved in the concept of identity as knower to known. Some implications of this view of the self-as-person are suggested with respect to the analytic relation and process.