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But enlisting movies and TV to explain the world is Harris’s expertise, arriving at “inadvertent self-formation by way of popular culture.”

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2023

In clear and flowing prose, Kalanithi describes his self-formation as a doctor and then the evaporation of that identity as he becomes, again, a patient, starving for time.

From Slate • Dec. 7, 2016

This is real life, of course, and there are complications to James’s neat narrative of Bildung, or self-formation.

From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2016

Her entire life was a process of self-formation.

From The Guardian • Jul. 21, 2012

She did not know how differently abstract questions appear to a mature mind, confirmed in principle by practice; and to one young, struggling in self-formation, and more used to theories than to realities.

From The Daisy chain, or Aspirations by Yonge, Charlotte Mary