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The free-context/self-agency condition refers to choices made by oneself, whereas the determined-context/external-agency condition refers to choices determined by someone else.
Selfies are photos taken by oneself, of oneself.
Autobiography, the biography of oneself narrated by oneself.
By understanding an individual's patterns of behavior that is, by reconstructing the meaningful world that such behavior reveals one can uncover the "fundamental project" or basic choice of oneself that gives distinctive shape to an individual life.
This choice is made after seeing the outcomes of decisions made both by oneself and one's immediate neighbours.
The choice to expose oneself and one's own life to aesthetic scrutiny is a choice that only performers themselves can make.
Part III hammers this same concept home with detailed discussions of the overwhelming evidence that the perception of gender, both by others and by oneself, begins even before an individual is self-aware and thereby directs all future choices, from playmates and toys to career and lifestyle.
Lifestyle change is very hard to do by oneself.
It certainly doesn't denote the experience produced by being by oneself.
In Japanese characters, the word "freedom" is written as "caused by oneself".
To spend an evening by oneself is to admit social defeat à la Bridget Jones.
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