The phrase "a consciousness of self" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing self-awareness or introspection in various contexts, such as psychology, philosophy, or personal development.
Example: "Achieving a consciousness of self is essential for personal growth and understanding one's motivations."
Alternatives: "self-awareness" or "awareness of oneself".
This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consciousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression and with all this yet to die".
Kant's argument for this claim seems to have been that synthesis of represented objects experienced together into a single complex object is a necessary condition of consciousness of self as single common subject.
To the extent that they are raised, educated and socialized in majority institutions, minorities always carries a split in the consciousness of self.
There seems to be a split in unified consciousness of self, too: Consciousness of oneself as subject on the basis of doing acts of experiencing in that body goes with lack of consciousness of oneself as subject on the basis of other acts of experiencing being done in that body.
Melissa Thomas's dancing of a third-act solo from "Raymonda" was a fascinating mix of almost flirtatious consciousness of self and whole-hearted immersion in the choreography and music.
Kant did use consciousness of self as a starting point for deductions, at B130 in the B-edition for example.
In Kant (1781/7), the notion that consciousness is unified is central to his 'transcendental deduction of the categories' (see the entry on Kant's view of the mind and consciousness of self for a fuller treatment of Kant).
Moreover, the poorer population often has a less robust consciousness of self-care, due to the limited education compared to the wealthier population; therefore, they tend not to take the initiative to seek health care services.
Rollins, and then John Coltrane, turned soloing into a wild journey of self-exploration, a sort of musical stream of consciousness of self-baring existential danger.
A third and yet more demanding sense might define conscious creatures as those that are not only aware but also aware that they are aware, thus treating creature consciousness as a form of self-consciousness (Carruthers 2000).
His multimedia works revolve around the ideas of movement and memory as they apply to the life and consciousness of a self-identified nomad.
