The concept of self is an elusive thing, always one step ahead of attempts to capture it and bring it down to earth. One working definition of self I have used is: "The self can be defined as that psychic structure that comes into being with the enigmatic process of self-reflection—that is, the self as simultaneously both subject and object."¹ How I have struggled with such a definition! It seems not right to have a proposition that includes the same term on both parts of the equation, that is, a definition that in circular fashion uses itself to define itself. Perhaps, perplexed by enigma, I have merely compounded the problem.