> On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> > Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote:
> >
> > >Who is this guy Sciabarra?
> >
> > Big fan of Rand & the Austrians too; thinks they share the dialectical
> > method with Marx. Did his poli sci diss at NYU under Bertell Ollman.
> >
> > By the way, paging through his Rand book I learned that the dreaded term
> > "self-esteem" was coined and popularized by Rand's protege/lover Nathaniel
> > Branden.
> >
>
> William James coined the term "self-esteem" in his Principles of
> Psychology in 1890. I guess we shouldn't trust a poly sci person
> on the origins of psychobabble ...
I dare not guess who coined the term, but it certainly WASN'T James.
It dates back at least to Ralph Waldo Emerson & the Transcendentalists -- amongst whom William's father, Henry James, Sr., hung out.
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