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“Adequate and inadequate sense of self”, “self esteem”, “self love”, “self images or Self representations”, or, rarely, “of one's Self” or “of one's self”; “parts of one's Self or of the Self” (“split omnipotent parts of one's Self, “good parts, bad parts of the Self”); “bodily Self”, “ideal Self”; “primary physiological Self”; “cathexis of the Self”; “development, injury, recovery of the Self”; “false and true Self:; and, finally, “the Self” as the subject of a clause (“The Self is the narcissistic pole of the personality”; “The Self is created by its symbols just as it is represented and expressed by them”.
Even at first sight this range of locution and clauses referring to the term “Self” (or “self”) indicates the many different grammatical values it can take on: that of a noun, or that of a third-person reflexive pronoun (and in the latter case it may be strengthened by the added demonstrative adjective own). In its pronominal form the meaning of the term can be easily understood: it stands for a transitive action of the subject upon the subject itself. In other words the subject acts transitionally upon himself in a way that is not unlike the way he would act upon any object (he loves, esteems