 … there is nothing mysterious or occult about the range of higher-order acts and attitudes, which are apt to be inadequately covered by the umbrella-title “self-consciousness”. They are the same in kind as the higher-order acts and attitudes exhibited in the dealings of people with one another. Indeed the former are only a special application of the latter and are learned first from them. If I perform the third order operation of commenting on a second order act of laughing at myself for a piece of manual awkwardness, I shall indeed use the first personal pronoun in two different ways …. But so far from this showing that there are two “Mes” in my skin, not to speak, yet , of the third on which is still commenting on them, it shows only that I am applying the public two-pronoun idiom in which we talk of her laughing at him; and I am applying the method of inter-personal transaction which the idiom is ordinarily employed to describe. (1949,189) 