ABSTRACT
The “self” is a ideological concept, implies a contrasted not-self; but the limits which divide self and not-self are not fixed but fluctuating. Organic or “common” sensations of general bodily condition probably form the element in experience which most obstinately resists all attempts to sever it from the whole self and treat it as a foreign object, though in some cases we certainly seem able to extrude the organic sensation from the felt self by analysis of its quality and “localisation.” The self is essentially a thing of development, and as such has its being in the time-process. This is a point upon which it seems for many reasons necessary to insist. Its truth seems manifest from our previous consideration of the nature of the experiences upon which the concept of the self is based. The self is never identical with anything that could be found completely existing at any one moment in author's mental life.
