The Self (n.) is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a person postulates as being a greater totality than oneself can become a symbol of the self. For this reason the symbol of the self is not always as total as the definition would require.
The Self (n.) is not only the centre but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious... it is the centre of this totality, just as the ego is the centre of consciousness.
The Self (n.) is not what has happened to one, but what one wishes to become.
The Self (n.) is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.
The Self (n.) is never perfectly knowable — in each of us there is another whom we do not know.
The Self (n.) is, in the end, bound to become the thing it fights the most.
The Self (n.) is necessarily sinful and thus demanding of love — the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within us. We ourselves are the enemy who must be loved.
The Self (n.) is always defined by others if you don't define it yourself — the world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.
The Self (n.) is, in part, a dark place — to become conscious of the self involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real.
The Self (n.) is discovered through others.
The Self's (n.) experience is always a defeat for the ego.
The Self (n.) is the unconscious substrate of the ego. It radiates outward and surrounds the ego on all sides. It is an unconscious prefiguration of the ego. It is not I who create myself... rather, I happen to myself.
The Self (n.) is the unitemporal and unique essence of individuality. As an archetypal symbol it is a God-image and therefore universal and eternal.