ABSTRACT
Properly speaking, a man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him and carry an image of him in their mind. To wound any of these images is to wound him. But as the individuals who carry the images fall naturally into classes, we may practically say that he has as many different social selves as there are distinct groups of persons about whose opinion he cares.
—James, 1890/1950, Vol. 1, p. 291