unselfとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

unself (countable and uncountable, plural unselves)

1. That which is not the self.
   • 2003, Daniel Albright, Beckett and Aesthetics, page 149:

     Beckett's text for Neither is a fantasia on limbo, on the no-man's-land between self and unself, subject and object, where we are all forced to dwell: […]

同意語

• nonself

動詞

unself (third-person singular simple present unselfs, present participle unselfing, simple past and past participle unselfed)

1. (transitive) To deprive of, or detach from, the self.
   • 2026 February 15, Lauren Jackson, “How to Pay Attention”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     The goal, said [Simone] Weil, — and the British writer Iris Murdoch after her — was to unself. The whole point, in their supposition, was to turn one’s attention toward the bigger questions.