ABSTRACT
How extensive is the domain of theories, conceptions, or philosophies that addresses compensatory phenomena like those we have outlined in the preceding chapters? Obviously self, components of the self, self-identities and related ideas have surfaced in the literature for decades. It is also the case that concepts concerning substitution, or compensation, may be traced back a great intellectual distance. And the general notion of building up one's sense of self, or security about the self, is also something to be found on a broad scale.
