Modern self-discovery is intrinsically bound up with reflexive trust-building

Evidence

Personal trust, therefore, has to be established through the process of self-enquiry: the discovery of oneself becomes a project directly involved with the reflexivity of modernity. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 289

Categorization

• SEED: Stevens entirely refuses self-enquiry as a project—his self-discovery is foreclosed by institutional devotion. This could anchor an essay on the refusal of reflexive selfhood in Ishiguro.
• XREF: connects to: Reflexive personal trust becomes trust in tact and disciplined self-presentation — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 255; Reflexive personal trust enables actions impossible by simple trust; Modern societies increasingly substitute self-presentation for feeling as a basis of trust (+6 more)

Related

• Learning to trust is steered by the developing self-identity (similarity 0.88)
• Reflexive personal trust enables actions impossible by simple trust (similarity 0.86)
• Self-identity is now a reflexive project conducted amid abstract systems (similarity 0.86)
• Modern societies increasingly substitute self-presentation for feeling as a basis of trust (similarity 0.85)
• Reflexive personal trust becomes trust in tact and disciplined self-presentation (similarity 0.82)
• Trusting others and trusting oneself develop together. (similarity 0.82)
• Modern intimate trust demands self-revelation that produces permanent psychological tension (similarity 0.81)
• Trust itself is an act of self-presentation exposing the truster to ridicule if misplaced (similarity 0.80)
• Winning trust requires participating socially and absorbing others’ expectations into one’s self-presentation (similarity 0.80)
• Trust stems from societal self-presentation conditions, not only individual strategies as Goffman holds. (similarity 0.79)
• Personal trust becomes a variant of system trust when it reflects on self-presentation (similarity 0.79)
• Trust requires interactive self-presentation, not mere predictable distance (similarity 0.79)
• Self-identity depends on the trustworthy company of equals (similarity 0.79)
• Trust arises not from powerlessness but from lack of full information about others. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Readiness to trust itself varies and is not a fixed precondition #corroborates (0.65)