"selving" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1996, Robert S. Corrington, Nature's Self: Our Journey from Origin to Spirit, →ISBN, page 40:",
          "text": "The selving process is one that cannot be reduced to origins or to a repetition of antecedent/repressed conditions.",
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          "ref": "2000, Rebecca Anne Allahyari, Visions of Charity: Volunteer Workers and Moral Community, →ISBN, page 152:",
          "text": "Moral selving among the drafted volunteers at The Salvation Army exposed an organization that believed in mandated change.",
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          "ref": "2012, A. Mohan, Utopia and the Village in South Asian Literatures, →ISBN:",
          "text": "In these novels, one comes to understand, as I elaborate in Chapter 5, the ways in which intercultural negotiations can become forms not only of 'othering' but also of selving – of processes by which one might reconstitute one's own self.",
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          "ref": "2013, Irene Fast, Selving: A Relational Theory of Self Organization, →ISBN, page xii:",
          "text": "In the course of this work it was borne in on me, increasingly, that the notion of I-schemes, schemes of selving, as the basic structures of our dynamic selves is congruent with developing directions of inquiry both within psychoanalysis and outside it.",
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        "The formation or modification of one's identity."
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          "ref": "2000, Rebecca Anne Allahyari, Visions of Charity: Volunteer Workers and Moral Community, →ISBN, page 152:",
          "text": "Moral selving among the drafted volunteers at The Salvation Army exposed an organization that believed in mandated change.",
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          "ref": "2012, A. Mohan, Utopia and the Village in South Asian Literatures, →ISBN:",
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