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- uncountableThe formation or modification of one's identity.
The selving process is one that cannot be reduced to origins or to a repetition of antecedent/repressed conditions.
1996, Robert S. Corrington, Nature's Self: Our Journey from Origin to Spirit, →ISBN, page 403 more examples
Moral selving among the drafted volunteers at The Salvation Army exposed an organization that believed in mandated change.
2000, Rebecca Anne Allahyari, Visions of Charity: Volunteer Workers and Moral Community, →ISBN, page 152In these novels, one comes to understand, as I elaborate in Chapter 5, the ways in which intercultural negotiations can become forms not only of 'othering' but also of selving – of processes by which one might reconstitute one's own self.
2012, A. Mohan, Utopia and the Village in South Asian Literatures, →ISBNIn the course of this work it was borne in on me, increasingly, that the notion of I-schemes, schemes of selving, as the basic structures of our dynamic selves is congruent with developing directions of inquiry both within psychoanalysis and outside it.
2013, Irene Fast, Selving: A Relational Theory of Self Organization, →ISBN, page xii
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