title: [The self system].
abstract: Recent findings of infant research suggest that the self may be regarded as a self-regulating system. The "identity self", that is, the totality of self representations, serves as the internal reference system around which all life-historical identity vacillations revolve.
authors.forename: F W
authors.initials: FW
authors.lastname: Deneke
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004532:Ego; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D010553:Personality Development; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D012649:Self Concept
vernacular_title: Das Selbst-System.