self-relation

The I's most original self-relation cannot simply take the form of an original Tathandlung in which the reflecting self (the subject pole of the self-reflection) claims immediate identity with itself as reflected (i.e., as the object pole of the self-reflection).

Georg Friedrich Philipp von Hardenberg [Novalis] Gjesdal, Kristin 2009

Governed by a movement that is anything but self-contained or self-grounding, such a being never presents itself to itself as something it can know as its own creation, which means that self-relation is no longer the distinguishing characteristic of the subject.

Patriot Acts: The Political Language of Henrich von Kleist 2006

Reflections along these lines have led some to conclude that we are bound to come up empty-handed as long as we think of an agent's identification with her motives as a self-relation she is responsible for securing.

Personal Autonomy Buss, Sarah 2008

Nonetheless, as this brief survey indicates, the self-relation they thereby attribute to themselves is extremely difficult to pin down.

Personal Autonomy Buss, Sarah 2008

We humankind with our wits for ever turned inward to ourselves, grieve or exult as we bid ourselves: she, like all other creatures else, was not in that self-relation; her parts were closer-knit, and could not separate to envisage each other.

Lore of Proserpine Maurice Hewlett 1892

Thus, Hegel's self-relation or being - a-one would refer to actual occasions or objectiles, and his relation-to-another-one would refer to prehensions of other entities.

Larval Subjects . 2009

Embodiment in Leaves of Grass "that the lyric persona tropes" his own thought, affect, and activity display [ing] modes of self-relation which are offered to the reader for a kind of subjective reinscription "and that we might read" Is this then a touch? "as a question

Notes on ''Points of Contact': Blake and Whitman' 2006

And all these tricks for logicizing originality, self-relation, absolute process, subjective contradiction, will wither in the breath of the mystical tact; they will swirl down the corridors before the besom of the everlasting Yea. "

Memories and Studies William James 1876