(n.) Existence as a separate self, or independent person; conscious personality; individuality.
Example Sentences:
(1) That impossible selfhood is particularly in evidence in 2011's The Wrong Ferrari , a "screwball tradgedy [sic]" and "ketamine-inspired movie shot entirely on iPhone" starring, among others, fellow lost boys Macaulay Culkin and Pete Doherty .
(2) Since body image is an important concept, perhaps movement can be made to other areas of self-concept, such as family, social, identity, and personal conceptions of selfhood.
(3) The romantic vision sees man as essentially striving for full selfhood, and mental suffering is the result of the thwarting influence of the environment.
(4) The vulnerability to paranoid phenomena may be seen to be a result of past experiences of subversion of "selfhood."
(5) It speaks, in the vernacular of the black church, with clarity and conviction to African Americans' historical plight and looks forward to a time when that plight will be eliminated ("We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating 'for whites only'.
(6) He even painted a portrait of a philosopher: Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer (1653), in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, makes explicit the problems of memory, history, and selfhood that haunt every Rembrandt portrait.
(7) His selfhood is cherished and sustained as best it can be.
(8) This combination of sweet and monstrous attributes in her father's nature, and again in the contrasting temperaments of the parental couple, must have been impossible to integrate for the small Virginia, who already was desperately engaged in the struggle for selfhood.
(9) In terms of ideology, the pursuit of fitness is promoted as an opportunity for individuals to avert several of the risks to selfhood thought to be present in modern social organization.
(10) Lacan's insight into the role of acquisition of language helps us to understand the formation of the subject in pursuit of a virtual selfhood, as Sartre described, but embedded within an intersubjective matrix.
(11) It is important to study in which contexts in nursing personhood and selfhood are enhanced and when they are diminished.
(12) The authors under review here all take as their topic current problems in selfhood and how they affect our relations to others.
(13) Your 'eating personality' Where once was just one personality ripe for the decoding, there are now many, and in this multiverse of selfhood falls the "eating personality".
(14) The emerging feeling of selfhood appears to be the precipitate of finely tuned interactive regulations involving mother and child.
(15) Williams, 25, is downbeat, intelligent, unimpressed by anything (least of all himself), and a writer of rare lyrical power, whether discussing sex, selfhood or BBC4's historical documentaries.
(16) Given these understandings of the relationship between paranoid phenomena and pathological narcissism, treatment will focus on reducing the threats to selfhood, refinding the self, and reestablishing ties to internal sources of affection, initiative and aspiration.
(17) The psychotherapy of a 10-year-old boy is used to demonstrate the usefulness of idealizing and mirroring transferences to help patients move from a state of lack of selfhood and self-differentiation to the development of self-structures that provide strength and self-esteem.
(18) Among the positive changes, the majority emphasized their greater autonomy, freedom, and sense of selfhood.
(19) I know that it’s quite a demanding listen, the album, so I’m amazed how well it’s done.” She says the album’s key theme, “constructing a selfhood that you can be proud of”, also informs Hold Your Own: “acknowledging all the selves that you’ve been and want to become.
(20) How can personhood and selfhood be enhanced or even restored in our hospitals, clinics, classrooms, and academic institutions?
Selfishness
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self-preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without regarding those of others.
Example Sentences:
(1) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
(2) They have been selfish, thinking of what they can achieve with gas.
(3) For a while yesterday, Hazel Blears's selfishly-timed resignation with her rude "rock the boat" brooch send shudders of revulsion through some in the party.
(4) A second level of concerted evolution occurs within the functional L1 sequences in a pattern that did not meet our expectations for selfish DNA.
(5) Not only did it make every grocery-store run a guilt trip; it made me feel selfish for caring more about birds in the present than about people in the future.
(6) Back in 1999 Chris Sidoti, then-head of the Australian Human Rights Commission, called the baby boomers “the most selfish generation in history”.
(7) It said Clinton's "cheap shots" had a hidden agenda to discredit China's engagement with Africa and "drive a wedge between China and Africa for the US selfish gain."
(8) We propose that REP sequences may be a prokaryotic equivalent of 'selfish DNA' and that gene conversion may play a role in the evolution and maintenance of REP sequences.
(9) Although angry when talking about the regime, his campaign grew from selfish motives.
(10) After The Arbor's success, said Barnard, the women who would become The Selfish Giant's executive producers, Lizzie Francke at the BFI and Katherine Butler from Film4, "were fantastic about saying, 'What do you want to do next?
(11) None of them is British, though there is great anticipation about The Selfish Giant, Clio Barnard's second feature, which premieres in the Directors' Fortnight .
(12) Further, it is selfish to suggest that Americans should feel some sort of responsibility for their fellow citizens.
(13) In an ideal world, such findings might be interpreted as smart women making smart choices, but instead it seems that this research is just adding fuel to the argument that women who don't have children, regardless of the reason, are not just selfish losers but dumb ones as well.
(14) Denial is absurdly selfish (and yet the best selfishness is yet to come).
(15) Jeremy Clarkson faced further censure on Saturday after describing people who killed themselves by jumping under trains as "selfish".
(16) A world filled with broken promises, selfishness and separations.
(17) In fact, Wilson's arguments are more fundamental and persuasive than Snow's; works on evolution, like Sociobiology and Dawkins's The Selfish Gene, have been absorbed into western cultural life as neatly as any neo-Darwinist could have predicted.
(18) Sometimes the athletes are so selfish they won't give up their own stuff to help others."
(19) Her newspaper profiles over the years are peppered with self-deprecating references to her sporting ruthlessness: her constant mentions of her selfishness and egotism; her win-at-all-costs, only-gold-medals-matter mentality; or the time she flung her helmet at her boyfriend in frustration after losing a race.
(20) This has been encouraged by the press' standard strike narrative: these selfish bastards are striking, this is bad, and it will affect you in this awful unacceptable way of maybe making you slightly late for work.