Wiktionary
self-distance
n. The ability to critically reflect on yourself and your relations from an external perspective.
Usage examples of "self-distance".
Mass-mediated politicians and Disneyfied audioanimatrons inhabit a strange postmodern space, a "distancing at the heart of the thing" that "is not a simple change of place," but rather a self-distancing in which the object itself is transformed into its own image or simulacrum (Blanchot).