But, she insisted, "it's time to get beyond the institutionalized debunking of the bourgeois autonomous or essentialist humanist self.

But Freud destroyed the autonomous self, the notion that you are one person doing one thing.

Like Helen, Lodge clearly wants "to hold on to the traditional idea of the autonomous individual self."

Presidential campaigning seems to have been designed to strip away personality, stunt thought and destroy the autonomous self.

One view, which he sometimes terms "procedural liberalism," emphasizes the rights of citizens as free and autonomous selves to choose their own values and purposes.

- to achieve the autonomous self.

Bloom's answer is that "only deep, constant reading fully establishes and augments an autonomous self."

It is more useful to argue the variable nature of the relationship between the individual and society than to assume a linear evolution towards the autonomous self.

Others think we can recall fragments, but can't integrate them into autobiographical stories until we fully understand the concept of the autonomous self.

The lower animal instincts and the forces of peer groups and socialization are inferior to the autonomous self (personality) constructed by the conscious person.