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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).