The phrase "conception of himself" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a person's personal understanding or idea of who they are. Example: John's conception of himself had always been shaped by his upbringing and experiences, but after therapy, he began to see himself in a different light.
Fitzgerald's hero, the poor farm boy named Jimmy Gatz who reinvents himself as Jay Gatsby, who "sprang from a Platonic conception of himself", epitomises the self-made man.
I believe it had to do with his conception of himself as a preacher, of the seriousness of his calling.
What set Hitler apart from most authoritarian figures in history was his conception of himself as an artist-genius who used politics as his métier.
Benn and many others believe that Netanyahu has a heroic conception of himself that is hard for Obama to understand or countenance.
His awareness of Hebrew scolarship, for instance, is brought to bear usefully on the Ode to the West Wind - and therefore Shelley's whole conception of himself and his work - by clarifying just what a prophet is and isn't.
Longtime executives in Trump's business empire say that although he successfully constructed a popular conception of himself as a tough, blunt truth-teller, the "You're fired" image was always a caricature.
In accordance with this conception of Platonism, Plutarch himself writes dialogues, which, like Plato's, are either dramatic (e.g. De cohibenda ira), narrated (e.g. De sera numinis vindicta), or mixed (De genio Socratis); see the typology of Platonic dialogues in Diogenes Laertius 3.50).
Mr. Hollande tried on Sunday to answer his critics with an impassioned if wandering speech about his conception of the presidency, shouting himself hoarse as he talked about resuscitating "the French dream" of a better life built on equality, justice and secularism.
Now, this is the Catholic conception of the Eucharist, which Bayle himself rejects.
Again, if he proposes to himself the conception of gold, the ideas of being solid, visible, and heavy (that is, of tending to the center of the earth or of motion downwards) and many others more universal than gold itself, which can be resolved further until one arrives at the most universal, will come from this by resolution.
This unites Husserl's discussion with the 'content' conception of intentionality described above: he himself would accept that the matter of an act (later, its 'noematic sense') is the same as the content of judgment, belief, desire, etc., in one sense of the term (or rather, in one sense he found in this ambiguous term.
