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Psychoanalytic developmental theory takes as its premise that the central thrust of human development is movement from a state of dependence and merger to a state of independent, differentiated selfhood. When we think about the self, or identity, we are inclined to envision a person standing alone, somehow being what he or she is, apart from all others. Our quest as theorists has similarly been for a conceptualization of selfhood as a purely internal function, as though one can have selfhood, or identity, independent from embeddedness in a social matrix.
Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Josselson, R. (1988). The Embedded Self: I and Thou Revisited. In: Lapsley, D.K., Power, F.C. (eds) Self, Ego, and Identity. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7834-5_5
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