self-actualization
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Etymology[edit]
self- + actualization. Probably applied in this sense by Abraham Maslow.
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self-actualization (usually uncountable, plural self-actualizations)
- Psychological development that can be achieved when all basic and mental needs are fulfilled. [from 1950]
- 2007 November, Gil Schwartz, “Escape from the job monster”, in Men's Health, volume 22, number 9, →ISSN, page 122:
- This is not an exercise in self-actualization at other people's expense. That's what you've been doing up until now. This is about acknowledging your faults to the people you've hurt without hurting them more.
- 2022 March 8, Andrew Anthony, “Liberalism and Its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama review – a defence of liberalism… from a former neocon”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
- The pursuit of individual autonomy or “self-actualisation”, for example, has become mired in an identity politics that subsumes the individual into rigidly defined groupings based on ethnicity, gender or sexuality.
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psychological development
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