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 The term self is used in several different senses. It can refer to the ensemble of the [[psychic ]] [[agencies]], the [[narcissistic ]] organization of the [[psyche]], or the [[conscious ]] part of the psyche that enables the [[individual ]] to recognize himself or herself as an [[agent ]] and a [[subject ]] endowed with reflexive [[consciousness]].The [[German ]] Selbst is sometimes encountered in [[Freud]]'s writings to refer to the person. Beginning in the 1940s, Melanie [[Klein ]] used the [[word ]] self in the general [[sense ]] of [[representation ]] of the inner [[world]]. We can...