ABSTRACT
There exists undoubtedly no more venerable construct in social psychology, both from psychological and sociological standpoints, than that of the self. Since the turn of the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries when the original social psychological theorists wrote on the subject, an ever- expanding field of books and articles has debated the exact nature, role, and meaning of the theoretical construct known as the self. Harvard professor William James wrote at the end of the Victorian Age. Though his descriptive language today reads as a bit quaint, his treatment of the selfconcept has endured as a benchmark in social psychology. There are two sorts of self-appreciation, self-complacency, and selfsatisfaction, and they involve dimensions of the Me such as pride, conceit, vanity, and self-esteem, or alternately, humility, confusion, modesty, and so forth. Zennists alternately refer to the self, the ego, the ego-soul, or the ego-I, but they mean the same purportedly phantasmal misconstruction.
