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Self-integration: the ongoing capacity to maintain internal
Self-integration: the ongoing capacity to maintain internal coherence across competing drives, shifting circumstances, and the full complexity of a human life that refuses to simplify itself for your convenience, characterized by coordinated multiplicity rather than homogeneous unity, where every drive has representation, protection, and a voice within a governance structure that resolves tension productively rather than through conflict or suppression
Why This Is a Definition
This definition precisely establishes the semantic boundary of 'self-integration' by identifying its genus (capacity to maintain coherence), differentia (across competing drives and circumstances), and distinguishing features (coordinated multiplicity, governance structure, productive tension resolution). It explicitly contrasts self-integration with both homogeneity and suppression, and defines it as a meta-skill rather than a static state.