It entails the capacity to observe, monitor, judge, and decide about the collective self.

Then again, the Federation had already proven its collective self to be firmly against genocide and massacres of innocents, regardless of species.

More broadly, how can it be good for our collective selves to be handing out benefits on the basis of group identity rather than individual attainment?

The mob dragged its collective self back off the bridge, cursing and threatening with every step.

Some tests of the distinction between the private self and the collective self.

Unlike the daily emotional life of the individual, it is the place where we can represent our collective self at our best.

But his type really are a dying breed I hope, slowly humanity is evolving this type out of our collective selves.

When one of their number snarls at the cluster, the cluster thrusts its collective self out and breathes the same fire back.

A relatively small wound with only soft flesh damage, it had taken only a short time before his collective self restarted.

One's collective self may offer a balance between these two desires.