Selving

In Selving: A Relational Theory of Self Organization, Irene Fast invokes the basic distinction between the self as me and the self as I in order to develop a contemporary theory of the self as subject. In a return to Freud's clinical finding that all psychological processes are personally motivated, she elaborates a notion of the I-self that is intrinsically dynamic and relational. Within this conception, our perceiving, thinking, feeling, and acting are not what our self does; rather, they are what our self is.