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self-definition | self-definition

jean-stringam's picture
Jul.08.2012
I want to float.  No house, no car, no suitcase, no connections.  Just float. Retirement didn’t cause this state of mind yet in some way it has exacerbated it.  After I taught my last class at the university in December, all winter I buried myself in my writing.  I felt little...
debra-darvick's picture
Sep.15.2011
I recall reading somewhere along the way that the terrible twos were the "first adolescence." Then came the teens, the time we most often link to the word adolescence. During both phases of my kids' passage through these stages of turmoil and tenacious defining of self, I bought books by the...
pavel-somov's picture
Feb.07.2011
The question of “What am I?” may lead to self-objectification or to self-liberation.  Which path would you take?  How would you answer it?  By saying something along the lines of “I am this” or “I am that” or “I am such and such”?  I hope not. Understand the self-limiting meaning of the verb “to...