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Toward a Multidimensional Model of the Self

This article presents a multidimensional model of the self that recognizes cultural variety while providing a comparative framework--giving translatability to difference. In this model, cultures of self can be mapped on an array of continua that represent modes of variation in a multidimensional field. These continua enable us to figure the position of one culture relative to others, while allowing for the possibility that dimensions of self do not co-vary among cultures. Continua also make it possible to plot variance in styles of selfhood within a single culture that could occur between contexts, through historical time, or among subgroups of class, caste, gender, or ethnicity. In the process of delineating this model, I interrogate theories, both venerable and contemporary, concerning experience and embodiment, ranking and gender, morality, emotion and cognition, attachment and need, asking how these elements of self articulate with one another and in what sense their cultural divergence is meaningful.