self-actualizationn.

1852 W. Pulsford tr. J. Müller Christian Doctr. Sin I. 81 Human self-consciousness, in its temporal self-actualization [Ger. Selbstverwirklichung] presupposes nature.

1880 W. Cyples Inq. Proc. Human Exper. i. 6 Our self-actualisation has not a common, universal relation to the intellectually-inferred physical system of the world.

1939 H. Ansbacher et al. tr. K. Goldstein Organism v. 197 Experiences..teach us that we have to assume only one drive, the drive of self-actualization.

1943 A. H. Maslow in Psychol. Rev. 50 382 What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization.

1975 Ecologist 5 123/1 The evolving form of marriage seems to aim at what might be called ‘self-actualization’ of the persons.

2008 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 3 Apr. 25/1 Their work is cut from the same uniquely American cloth of entitled self-actualization—the idea that you can be whoever you want to be.