self-actualization

plural self-actualizations · alternative self-actualisation

1. uncountableusuallyPsychological development that can be achieved when all basic and mental needs are fulfilled.First known use 1950

   I've got a nuclear weapon called self-actualization / 60/20 inner vision / Aim inside and blast the glass ceiling

   2017-18, Vein.fm, “Virus://Vibrance”, in Errorzone (metalcore, mathcore, nu metal, hardcore punk), United States: Closed Casket Activities

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   This is not an exercise in self-actualization at other people's expense. That's what you've been doing up until now. This is about acknowledging your faults to the people you've hurt without hurting them more.

   2007 November, Gil Schwartz, “Escape from the job monster”, in Men's Health, volume 22, number 9, →ISSN, page 122

   The pursuit of individual autonomy or “self-actualisation”, for example, has become mired in an identity politics that subsumes the individual into rigidly defined groupings based on ethnicity, gender or sexuality.

   2022 March 8, Andrew Anthony, “Liberalism and Its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama review – a defence of liberalism… from a former neocon”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

   Synonyms: self-realization