Individual Self, Relational Self, Collective Self - Paperbackby Constantine Sedikides (Editor), Marilynn B. Brewer (Editor) This edited volume addresses key issues relating to the concept of self, an increasingly researched area of social psychology. The self concept consists of three fundamental self representations: the individual self, the relational self, and the collective self. That is, people seek to achieve self definition and self interpretation (i. e. identity) in three fundamental ways: in terms of