Self
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Self may refer to:
- Self (sociology), you
- Self (psychology), a key construct in several schools of psychology
- Self (Jung) a variation of the psychological concept of self, as put forth by Carl Jung
- Self (philosophy), a unified being which is the source of an idiosyncratic consciousness
- Self (spirituality) - the egoic self and the Witnessing Self in spirituality.
- Soul, a self-aware ethereal substance particular to a unique living being (some alternative, physically-based definitions for 'soul' are also popular, sometimes referred to as 'Eisteinian soul')
- Atman (Buddhism), the individual impermanent self in Buddhism, also the eternal, changeless, blissful and pure Self of the Buddha, immanent within all beings. See also Anatta.
- Atman (Hinduism), the individual self in Hinduism. See also Jiva.
- Paramatman, within Hinduism this describes the Supreme Soul of perfect consciousness.
- Organism, a living complex adaptive system of organs
- Self (novel), by Yann Martel
- SELF (magazine), a US magazine
- Will Self, an English novelist
- William Self, an American organist and choirmaster.
- William Self, an American actor and producer.
- Self (band), mostly the brainchild of one Matt Mahaffey
- Solar Electric Light Fund, a non-profit charitable organization
- Self (car)
- Self, a sculpture by Marc Quinn
In computing:
- This (computer science), the object on which the currently executing method has been invoked
- Self programming language, an experimental test system for language design in the 1990s