Language, Identity, and the Formation of the Sovereign Self: How Language, Meaning, Worth, and Participation Shape Coherent Identity
Year: 2026
Type: report
Abstract: Language, Identity, and the Formation of the Sovereign Self examines identity as a developmental process through which human beings organize lived experience into increasingly coherent forms of selfhood. Building upon the Architecture of Human Coherence research series, the paper explores how experience, perception, language, meaning-making, worth, participation, and conscious choice contribute to identity formation. The inquiry challenges contemporary approaches that primarily define identity through demographic, social, psychological, or performative categories and instead proposes identity as a developmental architecture emerging through human participation and interpretation. Drawing upon the concepts of sovereignty, intrinsic worth, self-trust, and self-mastery, the paper argues that coherent identity represents a developmental achievement arising through the progressive integration of experience, language, perception, worth, and conscious participation. This work forms Paper VIII of the Architecture of Human Coherence Research Series.
Author: Harris Pedro, Enolia
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7164674279