Coming out discourses assume that disclosures of same-sex attraction allows the individual to attain
selfrealization and selfhood.
Thus, for the self-realization and competitiveness category, 13 items seek to group the values for
selfrealization (personal success, to be successful, individual ability, ambition) and power (social status, authority, wealth).
(122) Taylor, Ethics of Authenticity 61-66; Murchison, "Speech and the
SelfRealization Value" 474-75.
(268) See Baker, supra note 30, at 996 ("Nevertheless, to the extent that speech is involuntary, is not chosen by the speaker, the speech act does not involve the
selfrealization or the self-fulfillment of the speaker.").
With <IR> THE HAIRY APE </IR> , produced a year later, O'Neill returned to the expressionism of Jones, dramatizing the journey of the rough stoker Yank Smith toward
selfrealization and death.
Or self-transcendence resulting in finer
selfrealization in art?
In short, older people, even at age 60 and 70 came to a
selfrealization of their potential.