

Self-consciousness is essentially interpersonal and requires the reciprocal recognition: It is 'an 'I' that is a we, and a we that is an I'.

Self-consciousness is not consciousness of oneself in contrast to objects, but rather, it is seeing the external world as a product, a possession, and a mirror-image of one's own self.
Self-consciousness is practical as well as cognitive:Finding oneself in the other, involves the establishment and operation of social institutions, as well as scientific and philosophical inquiry.
Self-consciousness is, in psychoanalysis, an object -say, a tic, a symptom, which articulates the falsity of my position of which I am unaware.
Self-consciousness is a purely non-psychological ply of registering one's own position and reflexively 'taking into account' what one is doing.
Self-consciousness is the liquefaction of every stable support, of everything fixed or stable, of the slavish consciousness.
Self-consciousness is not an all-or-nothing matter, but proceeds through increasingly adequate stages.
Self-consciousness is one of the shapes of consciousness. Specifically, the awareness of being separate from the objective world and of being related to and a part of that world. Since humans are a product of nature, humans are in this sense the self-consciousness of nature.