ABSTRACT
PERHAPS, like Nietzsche’s will to power and Foucault’s will to truth, there is a will to self, to know the self, to exert power over the self, to find the self, to have a self. So, we search for our selves. Eventually, we may find that we have only to create ourselves. The resources that we use to fashion ourselves are our discursive practices. Harré presents one version of how this is done. Other versions exist. Two other versions, in particular, remind us of the influence our discursive resources exert on the construction of the self while reminding us of the space for creative energy on the part of that being that constructs itself.
