Self-identity is now a reflexive project conducted amid abstract systems

Evidence

The construction of the self as a reflexive project, an elemental part of the reflexivity of modernity; an individual must find her or his identity amid the strategies and options provided by abstract systems. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 295

Categorization

• XREF: This is the core bridge to the reader’s Giddens/literary project — the reflexive self must construct identity within abstract-system options, which is exactly Stevens’s plight deferring his identity to Darlington’s institution. — connects to: Impersonal modern systems paradoxically enable reembedding of local personal life — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 342; Learning to trust is steered by the developing self-identity; Large-scale systems enable rather than merely threaten individual self-actualisation — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 371 (+12 more)
• DEFINE: Defines the reflexive project of self directly relevant to the reader’s thesis.

Related

• Modern self-discovery is intrinsically bound up with reflexive trust-building (similarity 0.86)
• Reflexive personal trust enables actions impossible by simple trust (similarity 0.84)
• Learning to trust is steered by the developing self-identity (similarity 0.84)
• Modern societies increasingly substitute self-presentation for feeling as a basis of trust (similarity 0.82)
• Self-fulfilment can positively appropriate globalised influences rather than retreat (similarity 0.80)
• Identity is both a source of agency and increasingly constructed rather than given (similarity 0.80)
• Personal trust becomes a variant of system trust when it reflects on self-presentation (similarity 0.80)
• Structural modernization necessarily transforms subjective identity (similarity 0.80)
• Impersonal modern systems paradoxically enable reembedding of local personal life (similarity 0.80)
• Large-scale systems enable rather than merely threaten individual self-actualisation (similarity 0.79)
• System trust underwrites ontological security but yields no psychological reward (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Impersonal modern systems paradoxically enable reembedding of local personal life #corroborates (0.75) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 342
• Large-scale systems enable rather than merely threaten individual self-actualisation #corroborates (0.70) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 371
• Modern self-discovery is intrinsically bound up with reflexive trust-building #expands (0.65) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 289
• Learning to trust is steered by the developing self-identity #expands (0.60)
• Personal trust becomes a variant of system trust when it reflects on self-presentation #expands (0.60) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 239
• Reflexive personal trust becomes trust in tact and disciplined self-presentation #expands (0.60) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 255
• Liberated individuals turn from equality toward distinguishing themselves from others #expands (0.55) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 535